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Can stress cause ca15 tumor markers to rise
Hi ladies I have been going along wonderfully nice low tumor markers each 3 weekly bloods . And feeling so healthy and at present really fit however in the last weeks something terrible happened in ...
Hi @Sam09 I wouldn't be surprised if stress has an effect on the markers. Tumour markers, which measure certain proteins, are notoriously unreliable and are not used as commonly as they were years ago. They can be helpful for people on certain cancer treatments, but there are many things apart from cancer which make them fluctuate.