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CA 19-9 and pancreatic cancer: What do the numbers mean?

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Sep 9, 2023 | Replies (116)
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@pepaw

I don’t believe CA19-9 values have any meaning. When I was first diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer my CA19-9 was 256. After 8 rounds of chemo and radiation my CA19-9 is 13.8, but yet I now have stage 4 with mets to the liver, tumors continue to grow. I, like most of you, was encouraged by the counts, but to no avail.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Aug 30, 2020

Hi @pepaw, please accept my belated welcome. You're right CA19-9 values are only one measure. Their value has to be substantiated by further investigations, and in your case the value was actually deceiving. Can you share how the mets was discovered?

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