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What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:28 pm
by hopefulandstrong
I've searched the forum because I recall a couple of comments discussing things besides smoking that cause an elevated result -- things like dehydration, not enough/too much of one or another vitamin, general inflammation.... Can folks remind me of the list?
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:34 pm
by claudine
I think I remember someone posting that his exercise regimen had an influence on the CEA levels.
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:37 pm
by radnyc
Hi, your situation looks perfect for the HAI pump protocol, liver only mets, shrinking, have you enquirer?
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:03 pm
by NHMike
Claudine wrote:I think I remember someone posting that his exercise regimen had an influence on the CEA levels.
That was me. My CEA chart had a correlation with my steps per day chart.
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:21 pm
by Beckster
A tooth abscess caused a sightly elevated CEA. Any inflammation or infection in the body can cause an elevated CEA. However, my onc said that you can take your CEA numerous times in one day and it will change.
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:27 pm
by hopefulandstrong
Super helpful. And yes, I am scheduled for pump placement in January. Assuming there is no spread outside the liver. There are a couple of lymph nodes (which I think is also accounting for CEA rise to 68) but Dr. Kingham says those come out along with the gall bladder. My procedure was postponed due to blood clots. I need to safely be off blood thinner for a bit before they can do surgery. In the meantime I'm doing Folfoxfiri, which is lower my liver enzymes, so I think it's working. We just to do everything we can to keep it from breaking out of the liver.
Fingers crossed!
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:59 pm
by Jacques
hopefulandstrong wrote:... Can folks remind me of the list?
Here's a list that you can look through to find other sources of elevated CarcinoEmbryonic Antigen (CEA):
https://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58961&p=465102#p465102
Re: What, besides, tumor burden causes elevated CEA?
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:55 am
by mpbser
My husband's CEA was recently 2.9 which was a jump from 2.2 three months ago. We were concerned until we read that hyperglycemia positively correlates with CEA. When my husband gets extremely stressed, e.g. morning of surgery, recent scanxiety on day of scan review during a time of enormous work stress, etc., his blood glucose goes through the roof. We believe that caused the relatively elevated CEA for him.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483971/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801242/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j ... 5-0002.pdf