I had my CEA drawn last Friday... sorry I haven't shared it with you yet.
It was 1.3.
I was disappointed. After the steady decline from 5.7 on July 7th I was anticipating finally getting back under 1.0 (the previous one was 1.1) and was knocked back a bit when I saw that it was actually up some. Of course, it may go back down for the next test, in two weeks. One thing I can say: I was subject to some stress related to some family stuff back in Texas and perhaps that accounts for the uptick. Stress is bad when you are fighting cancer. It actually causes an inflammatory environment in the body that makes cancer cells happy. So, since I have walked away from the situation that was stressful hopefully the CEA will start to decline again.
We will do another round of chemotherapy in a couple of weeks and then do another PET scan.
