SweetC80 wrote:My mom's oncologist always reminds us that he only uses the CEA as a guide not as a diagnostic tool. Only imaging can give the whole picture. CEA is a better marker for some than others.
jep wrote:SweetC80 wrote:My mom's oncologist always reminds us that he only uses the CEA as a guide not as a diagnostic tool. Only imaging can give the whole picture. CEA is a better marker for some than others.
Yes, my husband's CEA was .9 before surgery and he had a large tumor and spread to 8 nodes (1 distant). We sometimes discuss his CEA, but I'm thinking it's not a good indicator for him. Am I right to think this?
Thanks!
Jill
SweetC80 wrote:jep wrote:SweetC80 wrote:My mom's oncologist always reminds us that he only uses the CEA as a guide not as a diagnostic tool. Only imaging can give the whole picture. CEA is a better marker for some than others.
Yes, my husband's CEA was .9 before surgery and he had a large tumor and spread to 8 nodes (1 distant). We sometimes discuss his CEA, but I'm thinking it's not a good indicator for him. Am I right to think this?
Thanks!
Jill
That is something to keep an eye one and discuss with his Onco. My mom's CEA was 1.2 when she was diagnosed at Stage III. As soon as it spread to her liver and lungs her CEA jumped. Since then it has gone up and down a bit but with every large jump there seems to be coordinating growth of mets, so it seems to be a better indicator now than when first diagnosed. It seems, for her, that the overall picture looking at her CEA graphed over the last year it is a fairly decent indicator but not just from one to the next month, if that makes sense. I'm sure everybody is different.
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