Cancer markers for treatment monitoring

[Nelsonyong]

Dear All caring friends, many thanks for your kind sharing on the experience of fulvestrant. Yours reply certainly give us more confident. My mom will go for the first Jab next tuesday (21Aug). Hope she will be alright with the Jab. BTW, learn that you all have the cancer markers tested for the treatment monitoring. May i know which marker(s) were tested? CA15-3? Many thanks and take good care!

[Hidden]

My daughter’s doctor checks her CA 27.29 as well as her CEA and CA 125. Her 27.29 and 125 are super sensitive to the treatment and progression. We got immunotherapy treatment twice this year in Vienna at Dr. kleef and he checks the 15-3. they are not familiar with the 27.29!in Europe. Wishing you best of luck

[Nelsonyong in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for your kind reply. Just sent my mom to clinics to get her blood. Will test for CA15-3 and CEA. Take care!

[Nelsonyong]

CA 27 is not available. How long have you on these 2 medication. Thanks and take care!

[Epinto]

At Sloan Kettering they test for 15-3 and not 27-9

[SeattleMom]

Hello, Nelson!

I have CEA and CA-153 checked every month or two. God bless you for looking out for you mom!

Linda

[Epinto]

I’m not sure if the difference between the 15-3 and 27-29. They both look for certain proteins in the blood. The cea is used for colon cancer. Very scary the whole thing!!!!

[Hidden]

I have CA15-3, CEA and CA125 - we don't seem to have 27-29 offered here - or my oncologist prefers to be guided by these. She does react to any really big rise but generally doesn't worry too much about smaller ups and downs. However I am currently on no treatment - we do not get Ibrance on my medical scheme (in fact it was still under testing last time I looked here in South Africa!) and gradually over almost 5 years letrozole and faslodex as well as xeloda have failed so it seems my next move would be serious chemo for which I am really not ready! My mets are in my liver and have grown over the past 15 months but I have no health symptoms - much to my oncologist's surprise so she has left me to enjoy my life without the "joys" of chemo till I feel any symptoms. Of course in the mean time my counts are going up bit by bit!

I guess the markers are one of the guides used but I see many oncologists prefer to depend on scans for more definitive signs of progression.