Sep 30, 2023 · A spike in values is common. As the tumor burden is reduced, there is less available CA19-9 to be released into the blood and the value drops. A positive prognostic …

Jan 24, 2025 · The CA19-9 marker tests can be wrong but your wife's markers were low during chemo, and went up after chemo stopped; you rightly noticed. If there is nothing else that …

Dec 23, 2024 · CA19-9 is not specific to PDAC pancreatic cancer. It will reflect other GI pathologies and is documented as a marker of various inflammatory processes, whether …

May 24, 2023 · I've read that other situations can elevate the test results even if cancer isn't present, although I don't know what those situations would be. In my case, my CEA was 13.X …

Nov 23, 2022 · The second this is regarding her CA19-9 levels..in November her CA19-9 were at 22000! I kept researching and surfing the web for anything and everything. I want to mention …

Feb 7, 2024 · I’ve done a little reading to see general thoughts on prognosis with really high pre treatment CA19-9 levels. The highest I have seen was an optimal cutoff pre operatively/pre …

Aug 16, 2024 · CA19-9 is affected by inflammatory processes of which a patient might not even be aware of another underlying pathology at play such as a sub-clinical Covid infection. This is …

Nov 21, 2023 · CA19-9 in that interval went from 12 to 33 to 77 to 277, and then 678 in 6 more weeks before I resumed chemo.) Now on biweekly chemo for the recurrence, I get CA19-9 …

Sep 25, 2023 · The decrease in CA19-9 likely decreased as a result of the clearance of the blockage that was preventing the free flow of bile to your intestine and causing inflammation. …

I was diagnosed in 2023. My CA19-9 was over 9000. I did three months of chemo and had the tumor removed in January 2024. The pathology report showed everything was clear. My …