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AlaskaAngel · 11-19-2005, 12:10 PM

Originally our small local hospital used the CA 27.29 so I had a track record with that, and then the hospital switched to the CA 15-3 without doing both tests simultaneously for me so that I would be able to compare, so I wasn't too happy with that.

Because I have found larger facilities that offer major cancer center treatments to be more reliable in general, the fact that the centralized cancer center in Seattle where I had my surgery uses the CA 27.29 tends to make me a little suspicious that it might be better than the CA 15-3 and that the substitution here in my home town might be economy measure of some kind -- but take that with a grain of salt.

A.A.

11-19-2005, 12:10 PM	#2
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	CA 27.29 vs CA 15-3 Originally our small local hospital used the CA 27.29 so I had a track record with that, and then the hospital switched to the CA 15-3 without doing both tests simultaneously for me so that I would be able to compare, so I wasn't too happy with that. Because I have found larger facilities that offer major cancer center treatments to be more reliable in general, the fact that the centralized cancer center in Seattle where I had my surgery uses the CA 27.29 tends to make me a little suspicious that it might be better than the CA 15-3 and that the substitution here in my home town might be economy measure of some kind -- but take that with a grain of salt. A.A.