I am losing it—my mom’s CEA came back at 17. I quickly Googled this and got countless studies showing high numbers, particularly over 10, likely mean stage IV and likely mean recurrence and low survival. There is a 2017 study that contradicts this and says it is really just a baseline and its post-op trend is more indicative of success but that was just one study among many that say the opposite.
I’m looking through your signatures and I could only find one person with a number higher than my mom’s—all of yours seem much lower.
I don’t want to give myself false hope but is there anyone out there that had a high CEA and wasn’t stage IV? And has a success story?
I am just broken right now.