Hi,
You can look up tumor markers on the web. From what I understand they do not actually garantee you have cancer. That is just one thing they look at. When I was diagnosed my tumor marker was at 226. It is now down to 1.6... my CA-19-9 was 1,900.
Tumor markers are used to se how the chemo is working. Having said that they can also rise at times, depending on chemo meds.
I have stage4 colon cancer, my markers are checked
only every 6 months.Mainly to see if the chemo appears to be working, along with CT every 4 months.
Margaret