Relieved
We finally met with the doctors and discussed the latest PetScan. There is no new disease! And the intensity appears to be the same or maybe even dimmer. Whew! So it looks like we are still holding our own against the cancer. It’s not going anywhere but it’s not grown or spread either. This has been the case through most of Mom’s treatment so we are pretty happy with it. Although we would love for it to go away and for her to be cured, that’s not really the way this liver stuff works. So we still don’t totally know why her CEA levels have been climbing but the doctor did tell us not to put too much emphasis on those values. She said it is a very good indicator for recurrence when someone has been cancer free and other curcumstances but that it’s not a direct yardstick for measuring progression of disease. We are very relieved because we got so worked up about the CEA levels that we really expected to hear that the cancer had spread.
