Could some of you veterans of ovarian cancer enlighten me about how accurate the CA-125 is? Will factors other than the return of cancer make the count go up? I had stage 3C ovarian diagnosed in July '02; had surgery, 6 rounds of chemo, then in the spring/summer of '03, the count started to go up. CT scan in August '03 did not show any cancer activity, though the count was in the high 20's. It rose slowly over the next few months to 37 in November; latest one just done on 1/20/04 is at 70. Meanwhile,in the past several months I have been experiencing multiple painful lipomas growing in various parts of the body at a rapid rate & will be checking them out with a specialist. I want to convince my cancer Dr. to do a PET scan. Is this appropriate? Thanks, Andrea