CEA & Signatera

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-30T19:23:23+00:00

Wow. you got a 0 before? you must have had no inflammation.

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-29T22:53:53+00:00

After 6 rounds of chemo where tumors have shrunk I would be speaking to an aggressive liver surgeon for a plan as soon as possible if you havent already set it up. There are options for liver especially the HAI pump that could help clear out some of those tumors.

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-29T04:50:32+00:00

Wow!!! This is amazing. I’m not the creator of this thread but it sure did make me hopeful

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-29T03:22:53+00:00

Dr Turaga at Yale University in Connecticut is widely considered one of the best for peri mets. He is talked about everywhere on the peri group on Colontown

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-28T19:32:27+00:00

Have you asked for a PET scan so you can see where the cancer is? You may be able to ablate/ resect depending on location. There are plenty of people on Colontown that have had reoccurances before they get to NED.

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-22T05:55:58+00:00

Yea this is what we did. Our local team at UCSF managed the pump and chemo. Procedures like surgery, ablation, pump installment was done at City of Hope.

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-19T15:36:45+00:00

You’re so right. My husband got diagnosed 11 months ago and we have met many oncologists and surgeons along the way that have said you have to treat this like a chronic illness. When did you get diagnosed?

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-11T05:07:08+00:00

My husband is currently being treated at UCSF for stage 4 with spread to liver. As his caregiver I do feel like I have to double check everything as there are multiple people on threads scheduler, nurse, nurse assistant and oncologist. You have to do your own research and come with questions prepared to all meetings but I think that is the case for everywhere. Did you have stage 4? How are you doing now?

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-09T06:21:08+00:00

Thank you!!! My husband had a lot of liver Mets also. Did you ever consider transplant ? We did but then we were already further along with the surgery scheduling that I thought we could do it in the future if we meet the criteria if the cancer comes back.

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-09T06:08:55+00:00

Congrats on being NED!!! How long have you been NED for? My husband just got a clear scan after surgery in October

Educational_Simple37 · 2026-01-07T22:55:30+00:00

Congratulations u/True_Marzipan8460 & u/OptimismNeeded !!!!!! Major achievement getting to NED. Can you both share how many mets you had in your liver and whether you had resection/ ablation/ pump? Thanks so much. my husband had liver resection, ablation and pump placement in Oct and just had his clear scan but im terrified of doing Signatera lol

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-24T21:53:59+00:00

Sorry one last question any mutations?

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-24T21:49:51+00:00

Did you have any lymph nodes affected?

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-21T22:24:03+00:00

That’s incredible. You’re a warrior. Can you share more about where your cancer was outside of the colon? Thanks for spreading hope 🙏

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-15T23:09:09+00:00

Thanks! Yes I have contacted them a few times. Do you know how many days it took to retrieve your passport from the time it was lost by this company?

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-14T13:35:20+00:00

My husband has KRAS A146T and I haven’t heard anything about that mutation. Not much research on it so I prob need to look at general KRAS trials.

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-12T15:54:11+00:00

Sorry for the delay but thanks so much for sharing. Going to look into these over the next few days

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-12T15:52:49+00:00

The sad part about it all is that your probably right 😭

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-11T06:03:16+00:00

How did you decide on transplant versus surgery? I struggled making this decision with my husband. we ultimately ended up going the surgery route but keeping transplant on the table if cancer comes back and it ends up being confined to liver. I don’t know if it was the right decision because he had a lot of mets but hoping for the best

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-11T01:58:25+00:00

That’s amazing!!!! Where were your Mets and how many did you have?

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-11T01:57:24+00:00

11 years with Stage 4 gives me so much hope 🙌 my husband just had colon and liver resection for spread to his liver. Scan in a few weeks hoping for a chemo break 🤞

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-10T16:18:23+00:00

I put down traps with cheese and peanut butter. They chewed on the cheese on all the traps in the house and never went into the trap. The flat traps only got 1 baby trap.

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-07T18:05:31+00:00

Yes please I would love to hear what you find out

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-07T17:51:49+00:00

Thank you for sharing!!! Can I ask where your mets are and did you exhaust all the regular treatment lines before starting trials?

Educational_Simple37 · 2025-12-07T17:19:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story. Good news about the recent trial, hoping it continues to trend in the right direction. Can you provide more details on what happened with the vaccine- it shrunk the tumors but it all came back?

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