Don't be shy and ask for photocopies of your lab results. I want ALL my results, CT scans, surgery reports, blood work in writing in front of me, it is my body and my right. Labs will generally not release them to you only to the doctor but his office can surely run you some copies. Never was a problem with my doc. Once you have the numbers in front of you, then ask away. Why is that number expected and is there anything he can say about it? Maybe next time you should go with your mom. You are good at asking questions (that's a compliment)...just ask him everything you ask us.
I will call Monday. I just found all this out myself. Had I been there I would have asked for the numbers.
But I would htink that he expected the numbers to come down, right? I mean the nurse wouldnt come out and say everything is alright if the numbers were rising, right?
Ask Ask Ask, do not just take the answer, you want to keep track of the CA125 that is important. Call them and tell them you want the numbers each time to keep track.
Alan, for first time treatments, it often takes more rounds of chemotherapy to create a change in the CA-125 level than for later treatments or for recurrences. Also, it appears to me from all of your previous posts that the doctors do expect good results from your mother's treatment. Don't worry and rush things.