Me too - tumor markers way up & anxiety high

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Today I went for chemo - which I couldn't have because my wbc was too low. The ca2729 taken last week was 1008!!!!!!!!!! Oh my God I am too panicked to even think.

The end of July it crept up to almost 600. Then my doc switched me to taxol/carbo/herceptin. One month later is was 900. When I saw the doc. mid-Aug. he said that he was optimist that the 900 was a good sign that the new combo was really effective & there was lots of debris in the blood stream as a result. And that it should that a large drop in numbers would result. 2 weeks ago another tumore marker test showed 938 which I didn't get too excited about going on the onc.'s theory. But now today 1008. I've had to miss 3 treatments since July because of low counts so I haven't been able to get all the chemo ---- but these jumps in numbers are huge.

Aside from low hemoglobin 8.8-9, low platelets (73 -180), & low wbc (2.4) today, my other labs - liver, etc. have been in normal ranges.

My bone mets are fairly extensive but as of last pet/ct in July nothing else showed up. I'm not having s/e from the taxol/carbo - and am feeling really good.

I had taxol before, but the carbo is new for me. I see the onc. next Wed. I'm sure he'll have another plan for new drug to try. But I'm running out of options and am getting more and more scared.