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Package: Advanced Full Body Checkup for Women. Tests: 96 parameters, 19 components. Price: From 1999. Fasting: 10 hours. Sample: Blood and urine, single draw. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited. This is the 14-component Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor plus five women's tests: Prolactin, IHC- Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Luteinising Hormone, Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA) and CA125 - Ovarian Cancer marker. The tier above adds only three pancreatic tests. The CRP is qualitative, not a trackable figure in mg/L. ## Two Calendars That Do Not Negotiate FSH, LH and Prolactin are the first-line panel for irregular periods, suspected PCOS and fertility workup. FSH and LH are pituitary hormones driving the ovarian cycle: the FSH/LH ratio forms part of a PCOS assessment, LH often high relative to FSH, while a persistently high FSH points to declining ovarian reserve. Raised prolactin suppresses ovulation, a common and treatable cause of absent periods. Two schedules must line up and neither bends. FSH and LH are drawn on day 2 to 5, day 1 being the first day of bleeding, because the reference ranges are early-follicular — a window two or three days wide that opens only when your period starts. A rotating shift roster is fixed weeks ahead and cannot be swapped at two days' notice, and prolactin is best measured rested in the morning, which an early shift start removes. What works: a home visit the morning after you ring, before you leave for the shift, or your weekly off where cycle day allows. If the window is unreachable this cycle, still give the sample and state the cycle day — FSH and LH stay interpretable with the day attached, which beats a test that waits a month. A mildly raised prolactin is repeated after rest; stress, a breast examination and some medicines also raise it. ## What CA125 and CEA Can and Cannot Tell You Both are tumour markers: screening aids a doctor interprets alongside symptoms, examination and imaging. A raised value has many non-cancerous causes; a normal one does not exclude cancer. CA125 - Ovarian Cancer marker rises in endometriosis, uterine fibroids, pelvic inflammatory disease, pregnancy and ordinary menstruation — all far commoner than ovarian cancer before 50. Many early ovarian cancers never raise it, so a normal figure is not reassurance: persistent bloating or pelvic pain needs a gynaecologist and an ultrasound regardless. Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA) follows colorectal cancer already diagnosed rather than finding it. Smokers carry higher baselines; it also rises in bowel inflammation, pancreatitis and cirrhosis. A normal CEA does not exclude bowel cancer — colonoscopy screens for that, and is not here. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination The finding to understand here is Platelets. A low platelet count is itself a cause of heavy menstrual bleeding, so it changes the direction of a workup — which makes it the worst number on this report to get wrong. Analysers get it wrong routinely: platelets clump in the tube and the counter reads a clump as one cell, returning a count that looks alarmingly low in a woman whose platelets are normal. Only a pathologist reading the slide tells the two apart. A qualified pathologist prepares the slide by hand and reads it under a microscope, reporting Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression. Skilled manual time rather than analyser time is why it is the first line cut from a package built to a price. The red cells matter too: over 50% of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019-21), and a CBC says only that haemoglobin is low. Small pale cells mean iron deficiency, large cells B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped cells sickle cell disease. The pathologist also sees blast cells that may indicate leukaemia, and under Hemoparasites looks for malarial parasites, endemic alongside dengue across Delhi NCR. ## The Other 13 Components CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia and infection. Iron Studies (5): Iron deficiency versus chronic-disease anaemia; thalassemia trait needs Hb electrophoresis or HPLC. Thyroid Profile (3): Indian women are hypothyroid three times as often as men, 15.86% against 5.02% (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652). Liver Function Test (12): NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., 2022). Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine, GFR and uric acid; the first and last read higher transiently after heavy physical work. Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL beats LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Not microalbuminuria, which needs a separate ACR test. Blood Glucose Fasting (1) and HbA1c (2): 100-125 mg/dL prediabetes, 126+ diabetes (ADA, 2024); anaemia distorts HbA1c, so read with the CBC. Vitamin B12 (1): 47-70% of Indians deficient (Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775-782). Vitamin D (25-Hydroxy) (1): Deficiency 40% to over 90% (Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178-184). RA Factor (1): Qualitative; positive in only 70-80% of rheumatoid arthritis, a negative does not exclude it, anti-CCP being more specific. CRP (1): Qualitative, not hs-CRP. ## Sources NFHS-5, 2019-21 · Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652 · Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775-782 · Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178-184 · ADA, 2024 · AHA/ACC, 2018 · Duseja et al., Indian J Gastroenterol, 2022 Content last reviewed: October 2026