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Symptoms Plus Blood Test Boost Ovarian Cancer Detection - MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers boosted the level of early-stage ovarian cancer detection by 20 percent through use of a blood test to detect a tumor marker as well as a woman’s report of new-onset symptoms. Us...

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.

  Department of Neurological Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. OBJECT: Brain tumor stem cells (TSCs) hypothetically drive the malignant phenotype of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), and evidence suggests that a better understanding of these TSCs will have profound implications for treating gliomas.

This is a really tough post to write, because I'm upset. I was hoping that the PET/CT I had on Monday would confirm the low tumor markers I've been having for the past four months--CEA (tumor marker) numbers that were in the normal range, meaning that my cancer was gone.

Usually, tests or scans are times of high anxiety for me, as they are for most--probably all--people living with cancer. For days before a test or scan and then for the days afterward until I get the results, I am spacy, stressed, and scared. But not this time.