Hi,
I cannot describe with words how relieving to read the posts. I am so scared and cannot stop crying since I learned. Everyone is great and so supportive.
My father has been diagnosed stage IV colon cancer with inoperable liver metastasis. I am from Turkey, (but used to live in NY) and all the doctos said that he has not much hope left. Everyone said that we should contact with MSK, NY. I contacted them, and sent all the reports and results, and they accepted him as an International patient. He is 62 yo. He started with FOLFOX, will get 3 cycles and CT scan after. The thing that panicked me at Sept 9, is his CEA level was 676,5 ng/mL (thats why he had colonoscopy, and CT, and PET/CT...and learned the cancer.
On sept 28, that took us almost 3 weeks to complete the scans and the reports that the hospital asked to accept our case, hic CEA is elevated to 1951.54 ng/mL (which i was shocked) and even 5 days later (october 3rd) his CEA level is 3033.8 ng/mL and this all before the chemo.
I am reading all kinds of researches and forums but couldnt find any data/forum about extremely high CEA. I am so worried, and so upset. I think I am writing just to share and find relief, or listen other similar stories and learn better. Thank you everyone even for reading, as sharing this was even a relief for me.