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| 12/23/2011 | I am a 55 year old woman who has had a bilateral mastectomy for multifocal Lobular Carinoma with micromets in the centinal node on the right side In Jan 2010. The cancer was reported as eostrogen positive and after 6 cycles of chemotherapy and 30 sessions of radiotherapy (25 on left side and 30 on right), I am now on Novladex 20mg. I have just had a CT scan, a bone scan and chest X-ray and given the feedback that no evidence of spread is present. I would like to know how frequently the cancer markers should be tested (blood tests CEA,BR15,3, OV125Beckman), how frequently the CT scan should be repeated and what is the probablility of the spread of the cancer? | ||
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| 12/23/2011 | hold onto your hat-- the standard of care is to not be doing anything of these tests you just listed. no scans. no xrays, no blood work. these tests today only apply to those with known stage IV metastatic breast cancer. so staging work ups, which is what you have recently had, were discontinued in 1998!!!!! it is determined that it is more accurate to rely on symptoms developing that to be seeking out trouble on scans like this. | ||
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