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lizfaye
lizfaye Member Posts: 1
edited December 2015 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Does anyone know why I would need to have a colonoscopy if I've had breast cancer, surgery, chemo and go back for check ups and tumor markers are ok? Wouldn't that be enough for my oncologist

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  • MusicLover
    MusicLover Member Posts: 4,225
    edited December 2015

    I have seen others on here say that they are getting a colonoscopy also. I can tell you this, I am pretty certain that breast cancer tumor markers are different than colon cancer tumor markers. You can verify that by doing a google.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited December 2015

    I don't think having had chemo would necessarily take care of premalignant polyps. Some breast & colon cancer genetic syndromes are related. Some lobular cancers tend to metastasize to the belly & gut. If you are of an age to have them just about any of your doctors will urge you to get one. Tumor markers aren't reliable for a lot of people, even if they were the same. I had sky high tumor markers & ascites for a low malignant potential ovarian cancer. Go figure. The docs were shocked to find out I wasn't in bad shape after all following surgery

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