Very interesting conversation! After reading thru I asked my oncologist about the tumor markers. He just shook his head and said, "no", " to many false positives". Now I don't know what to think! I would rather know sooner than later, personally. It makes sense that it would be easier to treat the sooner you catch it. But, my oncologist is a non believer in tumor markers. What's a person to do?
I'll continue to watch this thread, like I said, very interesting.
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Susan
Age: 61
dx: 5/25/06
2 cm/ 0 nodes
Lumpectomy rt breast on 7/26/06
ER/PR- / Her2+++
A/C x 4
finished taxotere 2/07
finished 33 rads
Herceptin finished 12/07/07 Yippee!
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