The relationships between perioperative CEA, CA 19‐9, and CA 72‐4 and recurrence in gastric cancer patients after curative radical gastrectomy

Abstract

For patients with advanced gastric cancer, CEA, CA 19-9, and CA 72-4 are considered useful for follow-up tests. Although, CEA is considered useful for follow-up test for patients with early gastric cancer, but CA19-9 and CA72-4 are less useful due to their low sensitivity.