3 posts tagged CA 27.29

A reader posted a question about tumor markers to my blog the other day. Here's what she wrote: ... Do you know how high the CA 27-29 tests can get? My mother-in-law has breast cancer that has metastasized to her bones. She has already had a spine surgery and also most recently a break in her right leg.

76!!!!! 76 is a fantabulously super awesome number. Ok, here comes the math and science- 76 is the number of my CA 27.29, also known as my breast cancer tumor marker. On 1/18/08 my number was 218. So my breast cancer tumor marker is down 66% since January. A normal, cancer-free person scores <38.