saw gyne onc yersterday CA upalittle - now at 218 - she's not worried as I feel fine & present with

Susan P
Susan P Member Posts: 103
edited March 2015 in Ovarian Cancer #1

Hi all

 as said above we had a good talk about CA # in all this.

 

 

I found her very logical and she pretty much matched what we've learned about CA#

 

I asked if anyone would ever have a zero reading for this specific Cancer Antigen NO even a perefectly healthy woman will  have a reading & she suspected even testing Wayne could show a reading. -- Wayne asked if there were a # at which she would do a scan NO - she pays far moer attention to symptoms or lack of.

 

 told her I knew logically that there had to be a few cancer cells in my body & she agreed.  then I asked if the symptoms appear if/when they get together to make a tumor. to which ahe answered yes.

 

 

her protocol pretty matches husband's Onc blood doc - treating a e verymild, manageable type of Blood cancer called CLL ( Chronic Lymphocytic leukemia).

 

He goes every 3 months with a new blood count of the screwey,garbage ceks being produced  & athough  he watches the # - he won'[t do chemo again unless his spleen & lymph nodes get fulkl of & inflamed by these cells the body is trying to filter out of the blood.

 

Same feeling as my doc --  unless all the symptoms coime together -- why put your body through chemo hell if not neede?I am to call her immediately if ANY of the symptoms should reapear > then scan if needed.

 

 

I feel good about her approach.   curious--as with most things we all are told.  does this approach  agree with what you have been told?

 

thanks  "kucky" Susan P - so far-  from southern alberta Canada & TX & WY

 

 

 

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  • Hearty Pioneer
    Hearty Pioneer Member Posts: 158
    #2
    CA 125

    My oncologist recommends chemo when the CA125 goes above 30. 

  • Lisa 00
    Lisa 00 Member Posts: 134 Member
    #3
    when to do chemo

    Susan,

    This is the philosophy I have adopted with my history of gynecological cancer:  After 5 years of those regular follow ups, which have turned out clear, I've stopped going.  I've decided that, if the cancer returns, I don't want to consider chemo until I have symptoms.  Further, I don't want to know about it until I have symptoms.  I have seen this philosophy elsewhere and that is what works for me.    

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