When any treatment works the numbers will temporarily rise because the cancer cells that die do so by breaking into several pieces, causing the antigens to believe that there are many more cancer cells within the system. Until the antigen itself dies off, the numbers will be raised. No one knows the life of the antigen, which is the representation of the cancer cells and/or tumors in the body. That is why doctors look for a trend. If ANY treatment works, that is what happens and then it goes down. Often, if the treatment works quite well, the body has a difficult time getting rid of so much debris, but it does go away.
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