Lynne Alfe knew what CA-125 meant. It is a blood test. A protein marker. When the levels are elevated in a woman, it often means one thing: ovarian cancer. Lynne's levels were elevated. And the diagnosis confirmed the worst.
Ovarian cancer.
The Diagnosis
Ovarian cancer is sometimes called the "silent killer" because it often develops without obvious symptoms until it has progressed significantly. By the time many women are diagnosed, the cancer is already advanced. Lynne's doctors identified the cancer and began discussing treatment options.
The CA-125 numbers were clear. They were high — well above the normal range. In oncology, those numbers tell a story. They indicate cancer activity. They track progression. And they were tracking in the wrong direction for Lynne Alfe.
Treatment was discussed. Surgery was on the table. The medical machinery was spinning up around her.
The Prayer
Lynne did what millions of people do when faced with a diagnosis that feels bigger than they are — she turned to God. She prayed. Her family prayed. Her community prayed. They asked God to intervene in a situation that medicine was already preparing to fight.
Prayer for Lynne was not a backup plan. It was not something she did because she had nothing else. It was the first and most important response she could make. She believed that the God who knit her together in her mother's womb knew every cell in her body — including the ones that had gone wrong.
The prayers were specific. They prayed for the CA-125 markers to drop. They prayed for the cancer to leave. They prayed with the kind of focus that comes from people who believe they are speaking to someone who is listening.
The Numbers
When Lynne went back for her follow-up blood work, the nurse drew the blood and sent it to the lab. The results came back. Her CA-125 levels — the same markers that had been elevated, that had pointed to ovarian cancer, that had set the entire medical process in motion — had dropped.
Not a slight improvement. Not a marginal decline. They had dropped to normal.
Normal. The range where a healthy woman's levels sit. The range that says: no cancer activity detected.
Her doctor ordered more tests. A thorough follow-up examination to confirm what the blood markers suggested. The results were consistent. No cancer. The ovarian cancer that had been diagnosed, that had been measured by elevated markers, that had been the subject of treatment discussions — was no longer there.
What the Numbers Could Not Show
Blood work tracks proteins. It measures biological markers. It tells a doctor what is happening inside the body. What it cannot track is what happens when a community of people brings a name before God and refuses to let go.
Lynne's CA-125 numbers dropped. That is a medical fact. The reason they dropped — that is the part that medicine does not have a category for. The prayers went up. The numbers came down. Draw your own conclusion.
What This Means for You
If you are watching your own numbers — CA-125, PSA, tumour markers, white blood cell counts — and every result feels like a verdict, Lynne Alfe's story is here to remind you that numbers can change.
Not just through medicine. Through prayer. Through the intervention of a God who made the blood that runs through your veins and knows exactly what every marker means.
Pray specifically. Pray for the numbers. Pray for the markers. Pray for the cells. God is not intimidated by medical language. He invented the biology that medicine is trying to understand.
Lynne's numbers dropped to normal. The cancer left. And the God who did it for her has not retired.
