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by Green Tea
Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:29 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years
Replies: 20
Views: 4616

Re: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years

False elevations of carcinoembryonic antigen levels are common in patients under surveillance for colorectal cancer recurrence (2014)
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21247
by Green Tea
Mon Sep 23, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Newly Diagnosed
Replies: 7
Views: 2790

Re: Newly Diagnosed

Thank you for the information Green Tea. MDAnderson doesn’t have any appointments available until mid November, which is probably too long to wait. Does anyone know of any colorectal surgeon and oncologist recommendations in the Dallas Texas area? You might want to have a look at these possibilitie...
by Green Tea
Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: newly diagnosed
Replies: 18
Views: 11685

Re: newly diagnosed

..Starting 4 cycles of CAPOX chemo on 09/09/24... Hello Coral. Please let your husband know that we will be thinking of him and wishing him well as he begins his CAPOX regimen. Take care ... Hello Coral It looks like by now your husband has finished his first cycle of 2-weeks of capecitabine therap...
by Green Tea
Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:27 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years
Replies: 20
Views: 4616

Re: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years

Question about follow-up colonoscopy. So far you haven't mentioned anything about colon cancer screening tests that you did or colonoscopies that you did. So, I have a few questions. When were you first screened for colon cancer? What kind of screening test was used at that time? When did you have y...
by Green Tea
Sun Sep 22, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years
Replies: 20
Views: 4616

Re: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years

Hi, Thank you so much for helping me with other threads. Doing research on the internet sometimes puts me into heavy anxiety and I end up giving myself all kinds of diseases. I was ready to not go back to the cancer center of hospital. I have been through the colon cancer then the scans when there ...
by Green Tea
Sat Sep 21, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Newly Diagnosed
Replies: 7
Views: 2790

Re: Newly Diagnosed

Another comment: You have a right-side cancer, and this has some serious implications for how to proceed with adjuvant therapy, depending on the mutation status and MSI status of the tumor. Difference Between Left-Sided and Right-Sided Colorectal Cancer: A Focused Review of Literature https://www.nc...
by Green Tea
Sat Sep 21, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Newly Diagnosed
Replies: 7
Views: 2790

Re: Newly Diagnosed

Howdy y'all, I'm new to the forum and newly diagnosed with a mass in cecum and referred to surgeon and oncologist, surgery scheduled for right hemicolectomy. It's a little overwhelming and shocking how everything is moving so quickly. I've been thinking about getting a second opinion to confirm sur...
by Green Tea
Sat Sep 21, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years
Replies: 20
Views: 4616

Re: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years

Welcome to the ColonTalk forum, where there are over 700 CEA threads existing as of today. Threads here with CEA in the title The thread that you just started on the topic Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years was the 704th CEA thread here. If you are looking for support from other " T3 N0 M0 ...
by Green Tea
Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:35 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years
Replies: 20
Views: 4616

Re: Stage 2A N0M0 cea rising at four years

...The thing to worry about is a longer-term trend. How often do you have your CEA checked, though? If you are worried about it, you could get it checked more often to watch for a trend... Yes! It is the rate-of-change in the longer-term trend that is most important, i.e., the speed at which the CE...
by Green Tea
Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:23 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: KRAS Amplification
Replies: 1
Views: 1587

Re: KRAS Amplification

KRAS amplification in metastatic colon cancer is associated with a history of inflammatory bowel disease and may confer resistance to anti-EGFR therapy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41379-020-0560-x . https://www.mycancergenome.org/content/alteration/kras-amplification/
by Green Tea
Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: CT Scan today
Replies: 28
Views: 7034

Re: CT Scan today

roadrunner wrote:... I don’t know what the “lucency” finding indicates, if anything, btw—just not familiar with that.

by Green Tea
Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:39 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: NCCN Guidelines: Colon Cancer & Rectal Cancer
Replies: 3
Views: 5472

Re: NCCN Guidelines: Colon Cancer & Rectal Cancer

BUMP - For those of you who might be interested, a new, revised set of NCCN physician guidelines has been posted, as of August 24, 2024. These new Standard-of-Care (SOC) guidelines have a revised, updated section entitled, " Principles of Surgery and Locoregional Therapies . This section covers...
by Green Tea
Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: CT Scan today
Replies: 28
Views: 7034

Re: CT Scan today

Well, had CT with contrast today and looks as I have 4 more lungs mets, small but there. Good grief!!! Good grief !!! What a disastrous and unexpected CT scan! I feel sorry for you, given all of the work, research and travel that you have done over the past 5 years. It looks to me like you're "...
by Green Tea
Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Rising CEA while on palliative therapy for oligometastatic colorectal cancer
Replies: 28
Views: 7525

Re: Rising CEA while on palliative therapy for oligometastatic colorectal cancer

skb - Right now I think your best bet is to press for a second opinion meeting with Dr. Prakash. He has a specialty in Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, and furthermore he is doing cutting-edge research in colon cancer. and has received a 2024 colon cancer research award: https://cancer.umn.edu/me...
by Green Tea
Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Rising CEA while on palliative therapy for oligometastatic colorectal cancer
Replies: 28
Views: 7525

Re: Rising CEA while on palliative therapy for oligometastatic colorectal cancer

The current oncologist is just asking me to continue with capecitabine. I felt like he was giving up on me. Asked me to see other oncologists. I do not know if ablation is offered at Univ of Minnesota. Do you know where it is offered? I can travel skb - I think that ablation is probably offered at ...

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