All Clear!

I had my 3-month oncology appointment. My CEA marker was low, an indication that I am cancer free. A friend who had a clean colonoscopy and CT and PET scan, has a high and increasing CEA. (People can have colon cancer with a low CEA - meaning the marker is not indicative of cancer for them, but current knowledge is that a high CEA means cancer is present.) In my friend's situation, the high CEA might mean that the cancer is there, but the symptoms are sub clinical. Continued monitoring will be needed. It brings me back to that place of being afraid of relapse. I guess that is something that is just always with you.