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1. My oncologist didn't get too worked up over it.

Reply to wordpix (Original post)

Sun May 31, 2015, 08:21 PM

May 2015

I'm also MCRC stage IV mets to lungs; my # was always low - if not normal - while I did a lot of my treatments. It increased later on.

Her take on it was that if a CEA zoomed from nothing to, say, 150, that's something to indicate you might want to look around, but a normal CEA means nothing (certainly not in my case), and a high CEA guarentees nothing except you might want to check out more.

So, in short, in and of by itself, it means nothing specific; just take with other info it might help confirm (but won't really excuse) a condition.

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