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Elevated Tumor Markers
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I HAD SURGERY TO REMOVE 2 OVARIAN TUMORS. MY TUMOR MARKER WAS 2000 BEFORE SURGERY. HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF SUCH A HIGH SCORE. I'VE HEARD OF OTHER PATIENTS HAVING THEM IN THE HUNDREDS, BUT NEVER 2000. AFTER SURGERY, IT DROPPED TO 254. THEY SENT ME FOR CT SCAN OF THE ABDOMEN & PELVIS AND I SHOULD HEAR FROM THAT NEXT WEEK. WHEN MY SURGEON DID THE SURGERY, HE SAID EVERYTHING LOOKED GOOD IN THE ABDOMEN. BUT FOR MY SCORE TO STILL BE 254, I ASSUME THERE MUST BE MICROSCOPIC CELLS AND THAT IS WHAT MY ONCOLOGISTS IS LOOKING FOR, I FEEL LIKE A TICKING TIME BOMB. HE STARTED ME ON A SHOT OF FASLODEX ONCE A MONTH AND SAID THAT SHOULD HELP BRING THE SCORE DOWN. ANYBODY ELSE TAKING FASLODEX? ANY SYMPTOMS WITH IT?
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SHEILA (45)
09/2005--BREAST CANCER/8 POS NODES --A/C, MASTECTOMY,TAXOTERE, RADS, TAMOXIFEN,HERCEPTIN
02/2007--B/C METS TO OVARIES--HYSTERECTOMY, FASLODEX
12/2007--ENLARGING LYMPH NODES IN ABDOMEN--IXEMPRA, THEN TYKERB
08/2008--COLON TUMOR--A/C AGAIN,
12/2008--ABDOMEN TUMOR--AVASTIN/NAVELBINE FEMARA
05/2009--MET TO SPINE (L2) RADS
CURRENT TREATMENT
07/2009- START ZOMETA MONTHLY, XELODA & ABRAXANE......SURVIVING THE BEST I CAN
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