help please re. serum test in UK

[jhandley]

Hi everyone
I am going to visit my sister in London in Jan and am planning to get a serum her 2 blood test done. Can any UK residents help me with some advice on where I can get this done and whether it costs. (Australia has reciprocal Medicare with UK).
Thankyou
jackie down under

[tricia keegan]

Jackie I don't know as I live in Ireland but you may get an answer from www.cancerbuddiesnetwork.org if (http://www.cancerbuddiesnetwork.org if) no one else here can help.

This is a UK site recently started for all kinds of cancer and the founder herself had breast cancer so someone may be able to help there.
Good luck
Tricia

[heblaj01]

jackie,
At least one of the 4 or 5 authorized labs (in the USA) doing the serum HER-2 tests has an office & lab in West London: Quest Diagnostics.
You may contact that office for info. Its web site iis:
http://www.questdiagnostics.com/uk/index.html
Good luck.


P.S.:
Based on what the front page of their web site seems to imply, the test for HER-2 may be done at their California lab called the Nichols Institute.
Even if this is the case it is not an obstacle for a UK resident, as frozen serum specimens packed in dry ice are standard shipping procedures allowing a transit time of up to one week.