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Oncology Male Check-Up
Check Up & Preventive Medicine

Oncology Male Check-Up

About This Department

 
Biruni Oncology Screening Panel

Twenty-five checks, and every one of them answered before you go home.

PSA, a stool test for hidden bowel bleeding, a whole abdominal ultrasound and three more tumor markers, with the liver and kidney chemistry that makes sense of them. Nothing here waits on a laboratory for days. It is the one panel where the full result set arrives the same afternoon.

9am to 4pm
Every result same day
1 visit
Single appointment
25 items
Cancer screening focus
Free
Pre-travel review
A focused screening panel

Everything Included in the Oncology Male Panel

A physician consultation with two imaging studies, four tumor markers, urine and stool analysis and fifteen laboratory tests, all under a single price.

Consultation and imaging, 3
Check-up physician consultation
Complete abdominal ultrasound
Chest X-ray, single P.A. view

The ultrasound is the item doing the heavy lifting. One pass covers liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, bladder and prostate, which happens to be four of the organs your marker panel is asking about.

Tumor markers, 4
Prostate-specific antigen, prostate
CEA, colon and rectum
CA 19-9, pancreas and bile duct
Alpha-fetoprotein, liver

Four numbers drawn together, read together, and kept as your personal baseline. What they can and cannot settle is spelled out plainly further down this page.

Urine, stool and inflammation, 3
Fecal occult blood test, manual
Complete urinalysis, strip and microscopy
CRP, measured by turbidimetry

The stool test looks for bleeding too small to see, which is how bowel cancer gets caught while it is still easy to treat. A small sample is needed, and a sterile container is provided by our team.

Laboratory tests, 15
Blood count and sugar. Complete blood count, also called a hemogram, glucose, glycated hemoglobin measured by HPLC
Kidney. Blood urea nitrogen, creatinine
Liver. ALT, AST, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, direct bilirubin, lactate dehydrogenase
Electrolytes and minerals. Sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium

Six liver tests underneath one liver marker is the right proportion. An alpha-fetoprotein figure means something quite different depending on whether the enzymes and the bilirubin around it are normal.

A prostate and bowel panel with the plumbing attached

Strip this panel back and two items are doing the real screening work, the PSA and the stool test. Those are the two checks men delay longest and the two where finding something early changes the outcome most. Everything around them is there to make those two readable. The abdominal ultrasound looks straight at the prostate, the liver and the pancreas. The liver enzymes give the alpha-fetoprotein figure its context. The blood count catches the quiet anemia that a slowly bleeding bowel produces. Twenty-five items sounds modest next to a hundred-item executive package, and for a man whose question is specifically about cancer it is aimed rather better.

On a narrow screen the table below scrolls left and right.

What this panel covers, and what it deliberately leaves out
Inside the panel Add at booking, or look at another package
Total PSA and a complete abdominal ultrasound A urology examination, and free PSA with the free to total ratio
Fecal occult blood test for hidden bowel bleeding Colonoscopy, which is what settles the cause of any bleeding
CEA, CA 19-9 and alpha-fetoprotein with full liver chemistry Gastroscopy, if reflux or stomach trouble is part of the picture
Chest X-ray and fifteen organ-function tests Low-dose lung CT, which is the real screening tool for smokers
Closing consultation with a written report The Executive package, if you want endoscopy and cross-sectional imaging too
Anything in the right-hand column can be discussed before you book, and the coordinator will say plainly when a different package answers your question better.
Narrow on purpose

What This Panel Is Looking For

The two men postpone

Prostate and Bowel, Finished by Lunch

A PSA figure and a stool test for invisible bleeding. Neither takes any real time. Both get put off for years, which is precisely why bundling them into one morning is what finally gets them done.

Seven organs, one probe

An Ultrasound That Earns Its Place

Fatty liver, gallstones, kidney cysts and an enlarged prostate all turn up here, and none of them announces itself first. It is also the reason your marker figures never have to stand on their own.

Nothing posted later

The Whole Panel Reports Today

No biopsy, no cytology, nothing that needs a pathologist and a week. All twenty-five items are back inside the afternoon. You fly home holding the answer instead of waiting on an e-mail.

A starting line

Numbers You Can Measure Against Next Year

A first PSA is worth most for what it makes possible afterwards. A figure that climbs steadily means something a single reading never can, and this panel gives you the first point on that line.

Schedule breakdown

How the Day Runs

1

Registration and Samples, 9am

One fasting draw supplies all fifteen laboratory tests and the four markers. The urine and stool containers go in at the same desk. Breakfast follows immediately.

2

Abdominal Ultrasound While You Are Still Fasting

An empty gallbladder is far easier to read than a full one, so the scan happens before you eat. The sonographer works through liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, bladder and prostate in a single session.

3

Chest X-Ray and the Laboratory Turnaround

The chest film takes minutes and a radiologist reports it the same day, alongside the ultrasound. Meanwhile the bloods and the markers work through the laboratory, all of them on same-day turnaround.

4

Everything Explained, Around 4pm

The check-up physician has the complete panel in front of him, markers beside scans beside chemistry, and goes through it with you face to face. You leave with a written report and no outstanding result to wait for.

Before the appointment

Getting Ready

Before the PSA

Tell the coordinator if you have cycled hard, had a prostate examination, or had a urinary infection recently.

Every one of those lifts a PSA figure by itself, and a healthy prostate can end up producing an alarming number for no reason whatever. Mention it in advance and the physician reads the result in context, or moves the draw by a few days. On a panel this focused, getting that one number right matters more than anywhere else.

The stool sample

A small stool sample is required for the fecal occult blood test. A sterile sample container will be provided by our team.

It reaches you with the appointment confirmation, so it never becomes a surprise at the desk on the morning. Bring it back with you when you come in and hand it over with the urine sample.

Fasting, 8 hours

Eat dinner as normal and stop there. One instruction, eight clear hours, and it covers the glucose, the HbA1c and the gallbladder view all at once.

Water as much as you like
Nothing else, black coffee included
Keep taking prescribed medicines unless a doctor has said otherwise
Bring any earlier PSA result you hold
Right panel, right man

Is This the Right Panel for You?

Good fit
Book it if any of this describes you
  • You want cancer screening specifically, and not a general check-up
  • Prostate, bowel, liver or pancreatic cancer in the family
  • Past 45 with no PSA figure on record anywhere
  • One day is all the time your trip allows
  • You want a baseline you can repeat cheaply every year
  • A previous marker came back raised and you want it looked at properly
Talk to us first
Something else will serve you better

This panel screens a man who feels well. Where a symptom is already there, what you need is a diagnosis, and that is a different appointment with a different specialist.

  • Blood in the urine or the stool that you have already seen
  • Difficulty passing urine, or pain when you do
  • Unexplained weight loss, or a cancer already being investigated

Open to men from 18 upwards, with no upper age limit. The prostate half of the panel starts to earn its place around 45, which is roughly where most national guidelines open the PSA conversation.

Three Things to Understand Before You Book

A urology consultation sits outside this panel. The PSA is drawn and the ultrasound looks at your prostate, and the check-up physician reads both. Where the figure comes back raised, a urologist is who you want next. That appointment can be added at booking, and the Integrum, Nova Vita and Executive male packages all carry one as standard, so ask us which route makes sense for you.

Tumor markers monitor rather than diagnose. No figure on this list can tell you whether you have cancer. A man with cancer can show entirely normal markers, and a man with nothing wrong can show a raised one. A mildly high PSA is usually benign enlargement or prostatitis rather than anything worse. What the panel gives you is a baseline plus a physician reading it beside your scan on the day.

The stool test finds bleeding and stops there. Hemorrhoids account for far more positive results than cancer does, and only a colonoscopy settles which it is. That procedure sits outside this panel and can be arranged here or by your own doctor at home.

Complimentary review

Ask first whether the panel or the package is what you need

Message us your age, what runs in your family and roughly when you could travel. Attach an old PSA figure or a previous scan if you hold one. A physician looks at it and tells you whether these 25 items settle your question, or whether a urologist ought to come with them. Nothing is charged for that.

International logistics

Coming to Istanbul for the Day

Two nights is enough

Land the evening before so the fast runs overnight, then give the following day to the hospital and fly whenever suits you afterwards. A third night is only worth it if you want room for a urology appointment.

Nothing stops you flying home

One blood draw is the most invasive part of the day. No sedation, no recovery, and every result already in your hands by late afternoon.

What to bring

Passport, the stool container, your medication list, and any earlier PSA, ultrasound or liver result. Comparison against last year is worth more than any single figure taken alone.

Your own language, all day

You talk to the physician directly, with nobody interpreting between you. English, Arabic, French, Russian, Serbian, Romanian and Spanish are all spoken in house, and other languages get arranged once you ask at booking.

Transport, family and visas

Airport pickup and the hotel car are arranged by the office. You may bring two relatives into the examination rooms. Where a visa is needed, the invitation letter goes out roughly ten days ahead of the trip.

After you get home

Nothing is left outstanding, so there is no report to wait for. The same WhatsApp number stays open for questions, and a PSA repeated locally next year can be sent in for comparison.

Before you compare

Reading a Cancer Screening Quote Properly

A long list of tumor markers looks impressive on a brochure and costs almost nothing to run, which is why marker-heavy panels are the easiest kind to advertise. The imaging and the consultations are where the money and the value actually sit. Five questions will show you what you are buying.

Whether the ultrasound covers the whole abdomen or only part of it
Whether a bowel test is included or the panel relies on CEA alone
Whether a doctor sits down and explains the results, or they simply arrive
Whether the liver chemistry is there to give the liver marker meaning
Whether a urology consultation is inside the figure or billed on top

No figure appears on this page. A number printed here would be wrong for most men who read it, and out of date within a season. Write in with your age and the weeks that could work, and the reply itemizes the panel plus anything you raised. Asking about it costs you nothing at all.

Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this panel tell me whether I have cancer?
Nothing in screening comes with that guarantee, and a clinic promising one is overselling. What this panel does is look where looking pays off for men, which means the prostate and the bowel above all, and hand the physician enough surrounding chemistry to judge whatever turns up. A clean result shifts the odds a long way in your favor. Zero is not a number screening can offer, and that is exactly why it gets repeated.
What happens if my PSA comes back raised?
The physician explains it on the day, with your prostate already visible on the ultrasound taken that morning, which settles a good deal on its own. Most mildly raised readings trace back to benign enlargement, prostatitis or a recent infection. Where the picture calls for more, a urology consultation or a free PSA ratio can be arranged while you are still here, and it is worth asking about that before you travel rather than after.
Why is there no urologist in the package?
Because this is a screening panel rather than a general check-up, and it is priced accordingly. The trade-off is deliberate and we would rather you knew it going in. If you already suspect a prostate problem, or you are getting up at night to pass urine, the Integrum or Nova Vita male packages include a urology examination as standard and will suit you better. Tell us which describes you and we will point you at the right one.
And if the stool test is positive?
You hear about it the same afternoon, with the next step already worked out. All a positive result proves is that something in the bowel is bleeding, and hemorrhoids cause far more of those results than cancer ever does. A colonoscopy is what settles the question. It sits outside this panel, and you can have it done in Istanbul on the same trip or take the report to your own doctor.
Is everything really back the same day?
Yes, and that is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly. Nothing in this panel needs a pathologist, so there is no biopsy and no cytology waiting a week in a laboratory. The bloods and markers run on same-day turnaround, and a radiologist reports the ultrasound and the chest film within the day. By four in the afternoon the physician has the complete set and so do you.
I am under 45. Is this worth doing?
It depends on your family. Where prostate or bowel cancer has appeared in a father or a brother, starting earlier is exactly what guidelines suggest, and a baseline in your thirties is genuinely useful. Without that history, a broader package covering heart, thyroid and metabolism usually answers more at that age. Send us your history and we will say which honestly fits.
How does this differ from your other male packages?
This one is deliberately narrow. It spends everything on cancer screening and skips the cardiology, the thyroid panel and the vitamin work a general check-up carries. Integrum is the broader annual with a urologist and a heart scan. Nova Vita widens the laboratory side further. Executive adds endoscopy, a low-dose lung CT and a brain MRI on top of all of it. Give us your age and your history and we will name the one that fits, including when the smallest is the right answer.
Written by the Biruni Hospital medical editorial team Reviewed by Dr Yunus Emre Yavuz, Urology
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Give us your age, your family history and the weeks that could work. We will confirm whether these 25 items cover what is on your mind, whether a urology consultation belongs alongside them, and how the day fits into your trip. Should a different package fit you better, that is what we will tell you.