My wonderful wife is 51, peri menopausal and has been referred to radiology for an US exam following a blood test which revealed a Ca125 of 57.  She has lots of symptoms (which when googled add to the fear) including low abdominal pain, indigestion, lower back pain.  I realise that lower back pain and indigestion are very common everyday symptoms and if everyone in the population with these symptoms were to be diagnosed with cancer we’d halve the population!

She had a raised Ca125 or 56 almost a year ago and was US scanned which was clear.  I know Ca125 is a rather poor diagnostic tool but does it tend to rise as disease progresses?  I can find lots of information as to how it falls in treatment.  Do her readings of 56 and 57 a year apart probably indicate that it is unlikely there is a progressive disease (ie Cancer)?

We have two children under 12 years old and my wife lost her father when she was 10 and not surprisingly it’s defined her.  She is beside herself with worry that she’ll leave her children as he did her.  I have some medical background, but when it’s my wife and my family the odds are all of a sudden 50:50.

Never thought id be praying for ovarian cysts or endometriosis!