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Lung Cancer and continuing to smoke

My mothers cancer started out as lung cancer and then spread to other area's in her body. She did chemo and it...

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Stage 4 cancer questions

Hello everyone, I'm new to this board but not knew to WebMD. My step mother developed cancer in a number of...

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Gray Spots in my MRI results

Hi my name is Brady Jensen I have been in a car accident in 2005 with the right hand side of my head cut...

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How can I be a good supporter to my husbands new f...

My husband has been diagnosed with Leukemia recently and I don't know how to react or if I am doing just...

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Elevated CA72-4 level for Post Surgery Gastric Can...

66 years old Chinese male underwent surgery to remove 2/3 of stomach due to antral ulcer in 2002....

Posted by wnx1999us

66 years old Chinese male underwent surgery to remove 2/3 of stomach due to antral ulcer in 2002. Pathological report revealed "Gastric glands has severe atypical dysplasia. Mitotic activity is obvious."

Patient then underwent 6 chemo treatments with 5FU and Mitomycin in 2002. Recovery seemed good with normal food intake and consumption. Blood work also appeared to be normal with no cancer marker above normal range.

Two years after the surgery ( 2004), routine blood test showed a rise in CA72-4.From Nov 2004 to Jan 2005, CA72-4 went from 10 to 160 ( compared to 0-6.9 normal range). CA19-9, CEA and CA24-2 remained normal. Several ultrasound and PET/CT tests revealed no lesion or other abnormality.

Patient were then underwent human interleukin treatment. CA72-4 went down to 20 immediately after the treatments. But as soon as the human interleukin treatment was stopped, CA72-4 went back to 130. Patient has no discomfort as CA72-4 went back to 130.

In May 2005, patient started taking Chinese herbal medicine with obvious effect. Within a month, CA72-4 went down from 130 to 7. CA72-4 remained in 5-15 range till this day as long as the patient kept taking the same medicine at prescribed level ( 5 times a day for a cocktail of three kinds of herbal medicine). Patient tried to reduce amount of the medicine ( partly due to its high cost). As soon as he reduced the medication intake and within a couple of weeks, CA72-4 went up to as high as 80.

While taking the herbal medicine, patient took frequent blood, ultrasonic, gastro scope and CT tests with no abnormality found other than slight hyperaemia on mucous membrane at the bottom of stomach in annual gastro scope checks ( always there). The patient appears to be in good health and lead an active life.

The questions here are:

1) Do we have cases in which CA72-4 was elevated to high level with no other cancer marker elevationï¼Ÿ
2) Does high level of CA72-4 ALONE lead to cancerous growth?
3) Is it okay for the patient to stop taking medication and ignore the elevated CA72-4?
4) What is the current status of research on CA72-4? Specifically, what is the source of CA72-4?

Any other comments and thoughts are welcome.

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Hi wonderful community members! We're happy to announce the launch of a new tool here at WebMD...

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How can cancer develop in really healthy people ta...

Hello friends, A heavy smoker can develop lung cancer because of harmful chemicals overtime to his lungs....

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New member Introduction!

Hello everyone, Myself Milon Jones, a very new member to this forum. I have a special interest in...

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aml

was diagnosed with aml two years ago, had chemo and sibling bone marrow transplant. nothing worked. want to...

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Supraclevicular Swelling?

My 21 year old just told me she has a swollen gland of some short on her collar bone. Well we ended up...

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Kidney cancer metastasis?

My mother recently found out that she has a complex cyst on one of her kidneys. After a CT scan with contrast...

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My Mother has cancer and we dont know how long she...

What can we do to help her at home. Are there foods or vitamins that help

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pain/swelling right side of neck/chin area

For a month now; I have had swelling/pain in right side of neck/chin area. PCP gave me augmentin nothing...

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How Long Does Herceptin Stay in Your System?

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Melanoma worries

Last year I was told I had a benign melanoma on my arm. I've gone in every six months to get check ups and I...

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Just need some advice..

Hello all, I'm feeling a little lost and just need some advice. I went to the doctor over a month ago with...

Posted by Richstoots

Hello all,

I'm feeling a little lost and just need some advice. I went to the doctor over a month ago with a cough and chest pain that I'd had for at least three weeks.. I didn't have a cold.. just this sudden cough that wouldn't leave me alone. She gave me allergy medication, a nasal spray and anti-biotics over a period of weeks to see what would clear it up.. nothing worked. So, She sent me for a chest x-ray.. which came back clear. I also had an ECG which was fine (As I knew it would be.. my heart is fine.) and I'm waiting on some blood tests at the moment.

I also mentioned to her that I've been suffering extreme fatigue, a weird fullness and ringing in my right ear, almost constant headaches (Which I've never had in the past), pin size red dots randomly spread across my body, random bruises, swollen neck glands, weight loss (Even though, I gave up my excercise), loss of appetite and really bad hot flushes. I haven't it mentioned it to her yet but I've also noticed the last couple days that my tongue is yellow from my gums bleeding so much.. but I haven't changed my cleaning regime or gotten a new tooth brush.. this is a purely new problem without any reason.

And now.. for the past two weeks I've had a low to high grade fever every single day.. it's horrible! I'm starting to get really emotional.. because it's just never ending. I'm actually thinking of asking the doctor to sign me off work for a couple weeks.. and I love my job! But I'm snapping at customers and struggling to get through the day.

Now, The actual question.... My doctor just seems to be going through the motions and doing one new test every time I go in.. which would be fine if I didn't feel so bad but I'm struggling and she keeps asking me to wait two weeks, three weeks between visits to see how I feel... Should I just tell her what I suspect? That it might be Leukemia? That I'm really worried and just want to get to those sort of tests?

I feel really lost. I don't think she realises just how terrible I feel. I'll be getting my blood tests back on Friday and she said to wait another two weeks from then... then go back and see how I feel.

When I go back.. what should I say?

Thank you for any help...

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Resection of tumor with coratid artery involvement...

I have had multiple occurrences of previously benign tumors in the salivary glands and associated regions. I...

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Acute Myeloid Leukemia affecting thought process a...

How fast does AML affect a person's thinking process and personality changes? Does it have an affect on the...

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Breast Cancer at 31

I just read an article here about Tomomi Arikawa who had breast cancer at 31 and I am related to her. I just...

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Radiation For Brain 1 hour long

My sister has cancer and it spread through her she has tumors in her lungs near her adrenal glands and a few...

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Melanoma on Face

My father has a place on his face that was melanoma and he has been having headaches. Could this be caused...

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What does all this mean?

In 2010 I had an Ultra Sound done that showed = "5.6cm right renal cyst. Normal renal echotecture. No...

Posted by dtownsley

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rectal cancer and radiation

My mom has rectal cancer and has had 21 radiation treatments. she has stopped the treatments because her...

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Lump in lower back?

My doctor thinks I've let nursing school go to my head, basically "thinking zebras when I hear hoof beats...

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I had the ultrasound on the nodule, they want me t...

I went to get the ultrasound for the swollen lymph node yesterday. The tech took several images of it. Brought...

Posted by Cindigal

I went to get the ultrasound for the swollen lymph node yesterday. The tech took several images of it. Brought a few of them to the radiologist...came back and took alot more on the request of the radiologist. She said that my doctor would get the results today. The nurse called me this morning and said the nodule was "abnormal". Thats all she said....of course I wanted more information, the "hows, when, whats.....but you know it goes. That's all the info I got from her. She said that I will need a biopsy and gave me the name and number of the place where i am going. Luckily in the same building where i got the ultrasound got. I already know the kind of biopsy I will probably get (i think). Fine needle aspiration to get the cells to see if they are cancerous or not....am I right....?? I am kinda scared about this. All my family are all scattered at different states except my son who lives near, but he has his own family and he so busy and you know you really want someone more comforting when you go through something like this.

My mom and oldest sister lives in Florida and another sister lives in Calif. She was just in chgo recently to visit her new grandson and I did get a chance to see her. I do have a sister in Chgo where we stayed at but she works and she has 5 grandkids that keeps her busy. I just moved to another apartment here at the complex that accept cats because the apt before that was not a good place to have cats but my son gave me the cats while i was living there.
Anyway, he moved me on Sunday, he took me shopping Monday, and took to the ultrasound yesterday...because I don't drive. I am suspicious there is some discussions in that household. For no apparent reason, his wife don't like me, I don't have no clue and I never did anything to her. Now he has to take alot of time now taking me to this biopsy and whatever happens next I will have deal with it..

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Dislodged Liver Tumor

My boyfriend's father is believed to have liver cancer. The doctors are sure of it. Today he said that...

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I just noticed a swollen lymph node on right side...

It maybe be nothing, but it does causes to be troubling to me. I read at another site about it could be just...

Posted by Cindigal

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Swollen nodes?

about a month ago my supra-clavicular nodes were so swollen that turning my head caused/lifting my arms...

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Melatonin for sleep

Is it okay to take melatonin for insomnia 6 mg I take timed release. It really helps me but don't know if it...

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lymph nodes

Five years ago I was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer (lumpectomy), no cancer in the lymph nodes. A...

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