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

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