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good news on ct but cea rose

good news on ct but cea rose

I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and they removed infected part of colon.It metastasized to my liver 2 large spots and 3 smaller ones and 1 lymph node. I went through 12 rounds of chemo My CEA started @ over 2000 and dropped to 23 after treatments. The lesions on liver shrank from 7-8 cm to less than 2cm which I believe was less than an inch and started to calcify. I had a ct scan after 4 months no treatment and the 2 larger ones which had started to calcify had completely done so the 3 smaller ones no change and the lymph node was clear but my CEA had risen to 291 from 23 why would it rise with such good news on the scan?
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