Terrific that the tumours are basically undetected ..... Try not to panic @Jacqui64, difficult tho it is. I was scared Shitless when I started seeing the massive rise in my hubby’s markers (below.)
Check out what is an ‘acceptable rise’ with your Onc.
Which makers are you having checked? My Onc has told us not to worry too much about the markers ‘as such’ as they are used as an ‘indication’ ... as there can be a fairly large ‘swing’ before they get really concerned.
My husband is having 2 markers checked, CEA and CA19.9 ... and the CEA was going up 4 points per test (it used to be 1.5 a few years ago) then from Jan, it was 18, Feb it was 22 and March 25 ... this week it went down to 14 - so happy with that. The CA19.9 used to be 7 ... then 154 in Jan, 214 in Feb, 302 in March, and this week, it only went up 10 points to 312 ... so VERY happy with that. He will have another PET Scan after his next treatment in 3 weeks to compare with the January one.
Our Onc (she is my Onc as well as hubby’s) is very happy with how he is going just, after just 3 treatments, given that he is Stage 4.
I hope you can connect with a good Onc BC Nurse for your own peace of mind - your Onc is already in a terrific Cancer Centre, so will have access to all the clinical trial results, etc and is probably discussing your treatment with fellow Oncs as well ... for the best possible results for you. Xx
take deep breaths, take one day at a time and keep as busy as you can in the lead up to the scans and wishing you all the best with the scans xx
