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amanda88
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4 years ago

TUMOUR MARKERS DECREASED BUT SCAN SHOWS INCREASE

Hi all, I have received my mothers results from her cancer markers and they have decreased quite alot but we are so confused because her CT scan shows that theres new cancer spots on her bones and ...
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StarGirl
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4 years ago
Hi @amanda88, when this exact thing happened to me my oncologist told me that not all cancers produce the proteins that the tumour marker blood tests pick up, so you can have a recurrence or growth that doesn’t cause the tumour markers measured by the blood tests to rise. All the best X