CEA & SCANS

Ok so I sat down with my oncologist today and asked him a few questions. First was the question about why don't I get scans done more often. My last scan was done after the surgery in August and it looked good. He stated that for a person who does not have any known tumors he usually only does scans every six months unless blood work shows something going on. Like CEA numbers climbing then he will order a scan to see what's up. As for the CEA not being tested so often again he said that with NO tumors in your body the CEA number should be low and that he would usually test that every three months. I asked him why he felt that I had such a good chance of seeing a cure one day and he stated that I should have at least a 50% chance due to the fact that I didn't have a lot of tumors and the ones I did have were able to be removed by surgery. Also that my KRAS test came back as me being KRAS-Y which is a good thing. The CEA test will be run today and I will have the results tomorrow. I asked him what number it could come back at to make him worried and he said it's really about it he sees a pattern of increase. Like if it's up tomorrow from the 1.8 from September then he would test it again in three weeks at my next chemo to see if it's up or down. He said it's normal for it to go up and down by a small amount but that we just don't want to see it going up and up. He said he did not expect this to be my case that it will probably still be low due to the fact that there should not be any more tumors in there. Can't wait till tomorrow to celebrate my birthday by hearing the CEA number is still in the normal range.

Bobby