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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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@marvinjsturing

@afaqsworld My doctors tell me that there are many things that can cause .CA 19-9 to go up one of which is pancreatic cancer. I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 6 years ago. For 5 1/2 years my scans came back clean. Last December they found out that my cancer has come back. If my .CA 19-9 took a jump like that, I would be calling my oncologist asking about more testing to find out what was going on.

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ginathemom | @ginathemom | Oct 9, 2020

Did you have surgery to resect tumor?

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afaqsworld | @afaqsworld | Oct 9, 2020

But my dad never have pancreatic cancer...he had colon cancer that was resected in 2013 and then had reoccurrence in 2018 and it was again of same nature i e CEA was raised NOT CA19-9... ever since 2018 my father is on oral chemo with 3weekly blood test and 3months PET SCAN..CEA 5.8 where as CA19-9 has risen up to 158.9 all of a sudden...till now CA19-9 has never crossed 24 since 2018..

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afaqsworld | @afaqsworld | Oct 9, 2020

Onco suggests all is fine with my father...just repeat in 1week..he is expect all to be normal...but I am stressed like hell till we get this test done...

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