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Cancer markers 15-3 and 19-9 elevated endometrial cancer
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@cookercooker My understanding is that these tests are tumor markers like CA-125 but test for different proteins for different types of cancers. Did your oncologist explain why these two tests (CA 19-9 and CA 15-3) were ordered? And have you talked with your oncologist about the numbers associated with CA19-9 and CA 15-3 and why these would be elevvated with the CA-125 is in the normal range? One other question. Have you had any imaging recently such as a PET scan?
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@naturegirl5 No, my oncologist didn't explain why these markers were ordered or why they continue to order them. I had asked about them and why they were elevated and he didn't answer me (not that I can recall anyway). That was my first oncologist, the one who treated me with carbo/paclit. Then I switched oncologists as I went in for a clinical trial testing Enhertu. I has asked the nurse the significance of the markers and she said they don't really go by the markers. I've been receiving CT scans every 6 weeks on this trial, and the tumors are shrinking, and one has disappeared, for all intents and purposes. Yet 19-9 and 15-3 still show slight elevation. So, I'm still in the dark.