ADELAIDE star Patrick Dangerfield has declared himself fit for the club's clash with the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium on Friday night despite a thumb injury.

Dangerfield injured his right thumb in a tackling attempt during the second quarter of the Crows' loss to West Coast at AAMI Stadium on Saturday.

The 21-year-old was able to play out the game after having the injury re-strapped and scans on Sunday cleared him of a fracture.

He completed training on Tuesday with the injury heavily strapped, and said he expected to play against the Bulldogs.

"It [the thumb injury] is coming along fine and it will be fine for Friday night," Dangerfield said.

"There's a little bit of ligament damage there, but nothing too serious."

Forward Kurt Tippett will see a specialist about his injured shoulder on Tuesday afternoon.

The club is optimistic Tippett's injury isn't serious and won't require surgery, but he remains unlikely to make the trip to Melbourne with the team on Thursday.

Dangerfield, who is Adelaide's next-best goalkicker behind Tippett with 17 goals this season, is expected to line up at full-forward in the big man's likely absence this week.

There has been plenty of recent debate over whether Dangerfield is of greater value to the Crows playing as a forward or as an onballer.

The club has preferred to use the explosive clearance player predominantly in attack, where he has helped fill the void created by injuries to Jason Porplyzia (shoulder) and Taylor Walker (knee).

The other side of the argument is that Dangerfield should be used to bolster Adelaide's ailing midfield, which has the second-worst clearance differential of any team in the competition this season.

Captain Nathan van Berlo said he expected Dangerfield to continue to pinch-hit in the midfield.

"We all know Patty is a sensational contested ball player, but if you look through the rest of our midfield group we've got some very good competitors in there as well," van Berlo said.

"There are a lot of other guys there that are capable of playing that role for us too, which we saw a bit on the weekend with Jared Petrenko, Scotty Thompson, Rory Sloane and Richard Douglas.

"We're playing some good contested footy. We just need more of it. We look at it [the stoppages] structurally. We train it and we keep looking at ways we can do it better."

Dangerfield and van Berlo were at West Lakes on Tuesday to support the Cancer Council's Call To Arms, which coincides with Men's Health Week.

The Call To Arms is designed to raise awareness of men's health issues and in particular cancer.

Earlier this year, Crows champion Tyson Edwards revealed he battled testicular cancer during his final season at the club.

Dangerfield, whose family has also been affected by the disease, said the Call To Arms was an important cause.

"Four years ago my uncle was diagnosed with a melanoma at the age of 56 and six months later he passed away," he said.

"My grandpa passed away [from cancer] about six months after my uncle in 2007. You don't hear a lot about men's cancers, but it's certainly an important subject."

Adelaide will play in a Cancer Council Call To Arms match against Essendon at AAMI Stadium in round 17.