Blood Work: Iron Profile what does this mean?

Question

Hello, thank you all in advance for helping me.

I am a 30 year old Male and I just got a physical and my bloodwork came back with some bad results in my Iron Profile. Here are the results:

TIBC: 231 (250-450 is normal range)
Iron Saturation: 39 (15 - 55 is normal range)
UIBC: 142 (150-375 is normal range)

They are bringing me back in for a Iron Profile with Ferrintin. I am wondering what does these mean? Is this indicative of cancer? Chronic Disease? This is what my research showed. Then I spoke to the dr... The doctor doesn't sound to positive about these results at my age. They are thinking it malignancy, chronic disease and the such. Needless to say I am quite upset. I figure the blood doesn't lie...

Any thoughts on this from people who know what this means?

Thank You for your help

-Ron

Answer 1

I think we're leaping to conclusions. Could be merely dietary, or could be a chronic bleed from an ulcer or some such...no need to be raising such major alarms yet.