increasing CA19.9
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Hi,
I brought your question (the entire message you wrote to this board)up to the attention of an interventional radiologist friend of mine who did chemoembo and RFA on me.
He agreed with your oncologist that the CA19-9 will rise and the duration is different from patient to patient;just look for the trend is the key.
However,he disagreed on the fever which lasting for 4 month or longer.He said it should not last for that long for a fever if it is purely the result or side effects of theY90 radioembo. He told me a complete work up may be in order to find out the FUO.
God bless.Hi,
If you remember my mom had Y90 radioemb. to her right lobe 3months ago and to left lobe 6 weeks ago, after second injection ultrasound abdomen revealed cholangitis (resolved now) and mild ascites ( which increased 3 weeks later but still considered mild, her CA19.9 was about 596 after rt lobe injection then increased to 1000 4 weeks after left lobe injection also increased to 2000 6 weeks after left lobe injection, her oncologist isn’t worried about tumor markers (he thought it is tumor necrosis) but the interventional radiologist said that fever and increased markers only last for 4 weeks after injection!!!! and no explanation for ascites they asked me for PET-CT for fear of extrahepatic active focus (mom has bone secondaries and she had radiation on them and she is in XGEVA injections “denosumab”). please share me your experience about all of that i’m so worried.
Thanks.
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