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If this Bayer serum test is worth anything, it will tell you whether you have some cancer getting active again. This test is to count circulating cancer cells, if memory serves me.
Hormone fluctuations are also causes of some blood tests to have strange results, but that Bayer test should put things to rest. Good that you did that with all you have going on in your body.
Now that you have started with the CEA, try to stick with having it checked every couple of months or so. This turned out to be a VERY good indicator that my cancer was on the move somewhere - turned out to be tumors in my brain. Last check it was down to point 9, so I feel pretty certain these two tumors got zapped by the Gamma Knife just as they were supposed to.
I have another friend with terrible lympedema and her CEA is steady at 10-11 for the better part of a year now, but her last PET was neg. CEA is also an indicator of inflammation and the thought is that the lymphedema is also contributing to her high number.
Keep up the good work and if you can worry a little less and take one day at a time, your stress level will drop. You will get a benefit from just that!
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