Serum Ferritin

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Hi, has anyone ever had a reported a very high serum ferritin in a blood test, mine as 607 in January and over 1000 last week, when normal is a maximum of 350.

There are many reasons why high ferritin may occur but one reason jumped off the page at me as follows, this clearly worried me, especially as by back pain symptoms have increase over the same period.

Malignancies

Local cancers do not raise serum ferritin levels (<500 μg/L), but metastatic cancer can cause them to rise, often to more than 1000 μg/L, probably because of factors associated with it (inflammation, cytolysis, etc.) 

  • Hi  and a very warm welcome to the online community. 

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  • Thank you, however I think I know now I was barking up the wrong tree as all the latest tests are directed at my LIver.

    Stay well