Korean J Pancreas Biliary Tract.
2017 Jul;22(3):114-117. 10.15279/kpba.2017.22.3.114.
Assessment of Asymptomatically Increased CA 19-9
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea. drjaihwan@snu.ac.kr
- KMID: 2448604
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.15279/kpba.2017.22.3.114
Abstract
- Health care screening is becoming more popular in Korea as more people are interested in well-being and health. However, there are controversies regarding usefulness of screening. Tumor markers are frequently measured in the health care screening. As a result, many patients end up visiting physicians because of incidentally found increased levels of tumor markers. Carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 is the single most useful tumor marker for pancreatic cancer. Although CA 19-9 is useful for predicting prognosis and evaluating treatment response for pancreatic cancer, CA 19-9 is less useful for screening of pancreatic cancer because of low incidence of pancreatic cancer.
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