On 1/21/2009 ladyjogger31 wrote:
Hi, I've had surgery and had 8 treatments of carbo/taxol and now onto my 5th treatment of Doxil with no break in between. My CA-125 levels came back 40,34,35 and(after my last chemo treatment) at 34, which I understood to be acceptable, but after reading a lot of the messages on this board showing women with lower levels, I wonder if I should be concerned. The Johns Hopkins site has info indicating that 35 or lower would be desireable.Before surgery my Ca-125 was 13,000. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
Hugs and Paryers,
Terry
Hi terry, my name is glo,(short) this is new for me talking about the cancer, wow you must have us all beat on your ca-125. mine was 500 at the time of surgery in 2006, since then i had 3 bouts of chemo carbo/docataxel.now my count is 26, went up over the holiday. the dr. said this is usual, more or less one becomes resistant to the platinum drugs.what i want to say there is a new drug out. i went on internet to read on trials.for ovarian. i e-mail a patti pharm. vice president,clinical operations last yr. because there was no trial for this drug in seattle. and ask if it would be possible for a trial in this area. it is called Phenoxodiol, australia,london and new canaan,ct.has had trials and certain parts of u.s. well yesterday, when i visit the dr. yesterday, and he did not like it going back up to 26, i said isn't 30 normal, he said 25 is normal for ca-125. so that is when i ask, instead of chemo again.is there anything else. he told me of the drug phenoxodial for phaselll. so i am going to tried the trial. if u are interested or any one else, go to Ovature trial. there is inclusion criteria for the study.women who had undergone 2 courses of therapy with platium drugs such as carbolatin and tumor has responded. then shown disease relapse with in 6 months of completing a treatment. sorry i did not mean to go on, u take care. prayers and huhs glo