Increase in CA 27-29
Hi there,
I am a little bit more of a year out of treatment but in the last check up the level increased from 19 to 26 which really scared me. I got the results after the Dr visit, I messaged him but did not hear back. Your thoughts? Have somebody experienced something like that before? Thank you!
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If you’re not metastatic, why is this tumor marker being followed? They are not a reliable diagnostic tool. That said, a 7 point increase should be no reason for concern unless a pattern emerges. When my spine was riddled with cancer, the CA 15-3 was nearly 200.
It came down nicely and hovered around 50 for most of the 4 years I was on Verzenio. Then it began jumping up 12 months ago by about 10 every 8 weeks or so. A PET scan revealed hepatic lesions last fall. Once on treatment, the numbers took a nose dive to 45.
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Good morning Vlnrph,
Thanks for your feedback. I am not M however it is what the Dr doing now consistently every three months.
It's been always dropping but now I considered a big jump, I am a bit concerned. Thanks again for your feedback … Sorry for what you have been going through I will be praying for you and also success in treatment.
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lianyvera,
My Dr. does mine also and I am stage 1 with high risk of reoccurrence. Mine went from 20 to 28 in 6 week and my dr wasn’t concern. I would be curious to what your Dr. thinks. I thought that was a big jump.
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margecandoit
My Dr did not seem concerned, but still it's my health.
Why are you in high risk of reoccurrence?, it was caught very early.
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lianyvera-
I understand how you fell about it being your health and being concern. My Dr did what was called a mammaprint and it came back high risk for reoccurrence and basil type breast cancer.
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Ok, I was not familiar with mammaprint. Good it was caught early :)
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lianyvera - yes good it was caught early. What stage are you?
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Diagnosed on 09/2021 Stage III TNBC, Finished chemo on 03/2022, DMX 05/2022 PCR, and in remission since then, finished rads 08/2022, immunotherapy finished on 11/2022. Praying to continue in remission. I will pray for you to continued good health and recovery.
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I was diagnose with basal type breast cancer which 80 % are TNBC the other 20 % have some estrogen or Her2 so I the other 20 % yay!! So I had chemo first. I did not achieve PCR. I am so glad you did. I will pray for you also.
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