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CA 27-29 numbers rising: Does anyone else have an issue like this?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 3 5:32pm | Replies (197)Comment receiving replies
My oncologist doesn't do these blood markers at all. I am 9 years out and stopped letrozole at 5 years. I have no idea how I will know I am stage 4. How many of you have docs who do this testing?
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Signatera liquid blood tests can help ease your mind and give you a heads up if BC is coming back. Medicare pays for this.
I am submitting blood every 6 mos. To Signatera. Due in August. I’ve had 3 negative results . Oncology will still say they don’t know what to do with a positive result.
@windyshores I am almost 5 years out and I get this test every six months. the high range is anything over 38. i went last week and my number jumped from 35 to 81. I have a pet scan scheduled in two days. They also found a nodule in my upper right lung which everyone assumed was scarring from radiation. Because of the jump in my CA27-29 number, my oncologist is now concerned that my breast cancer has popped up somewhere else. Ask your Dr. to run the test. what can it hurt?
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I’m just entering year 3 ( 20 mos on AI) and your stats are very inspirational!
That said, it’s an unnerving lifelong worry! The docs say they go by symptoms… then scans… but who wants to WAIT for symptoms!!! As I’m still with an oncologist I do get MRI every year.
I am in the Signatera program and I find a negative result to be encouraging but there are false negatives there also.
I’m planning to explant; not comfortable with a foreign body in my body and I have had a good bit of itching for the year plus that I’ve had a silicone boob. Also new reports of squamous cell carcinoma ( very aggressive once established) with silicone.