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I am currently in the treatment room with an IV hooked up to me. Earlier, when I saw the nurse practitioner, I asked her about my treatment since my CEA in December was 2.4 and I asked if that meant the colon cancer was gone, even from my bloodstream. She said no, but it is under control. I have colon cancer cells in my liver, which is what gave me stage IV in there. I thought liver cancer was liver cancer, but since it is not my primary cancer, it is different. Colon cancer often does that, jumping onto the liver as well as the lungs in cases like mine, where the cancer was not detected early but just as it was about to kill me. I don't have cancer in the lungs, just the liver, because the section of my colon that had the tumor was hacked out. I didn't know that colon cancer is still colon cancer even in other places. So I learned something new today.
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