I had/have cancer in my liver of unknown primary (maybe bile duct or colon, but they really don't know). I have a scan coming up in a couple weeks. My last one in June was clean, but I'm very apprehensive about this one. They are tracking two tumor markers for me (CEA and CA 19-9). While I have been on chemo, the CEA has been bouncing around and just went 0.1 ng/ml over normal for my last blood test. I know one test doesn't mean anything (especially this particular marker) and that trends are important, but I'm still really, really nervous. My CA 19-9 number has been completely stable since April, so that makes me feel a little better. They usually change together when something is wrong. The CEA can be impacted by liver irritation and a bunch of other things, which my chemo definitely can do (although my liver numbers have been normal).I am waiting to see what my numbers look like from the blood they took yesterday. I'm nervous about that too.

I guess I just needed to vent. I hate this so much. I live my life in three month increments and it's awful.