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scotu wrote:
My doctor also always alternates an MRI / UltraSound every 6 months looking for "spots" on my liver.




 My doc does this also. Don't mind the UltraSound, feels kinda good. MRI too noisy and hate earplugs.



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Iris,

You should know how to use the Search button, as this subject was discussed recently.



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AFP is used as a tumor marker to help detect and diagnose cancers of the liver, testes, and ovaries. Though the test is often ordered to monitor people with chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C because they have an increased lifetime risk of developing liver cancer, most current guidelines do not recommend this use. A doctor may order an AFP test, along with imaging studies, to try to detect liver cancer when it is in its earliest and most treatable stages.

At one time mine was as high as 90 but another Hepatologist told me not to worry. I went through a year of the triple therapy with Telaprevir/Incivek (virus was undetectable the entire time) then 12 weeks off the medicine the virus was back.

My most recent AFP was 10. My doctor also always alternates an MRI / UltraSound every 6 months looking for "spots" on my liver.

Waiting for a new drug (trial study) that my Doc things is real promising, just like Teleprevir was.

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Ok,.. so my AFP has been elevated, just slightly... but for a year or so and going up slowly, when do the numbers mean trouble???? Why do they check this?... and then when it is elevated they kinda just say, oh...that's not too bad.confuse

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