After birth, levels drop way down. Healthy adults have a very low level, but some types of cancer can cause it to rise. Your doctor can use CEA as a “marker” to learn more about your cancer.

Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2008;8(5):579-585. Quite a few tumor markers (CEA, CA 19-9, AFP, SCC, CA 72-4.) have already been established in diagnosis and/or surveillance of malignant diseases of the GI ...

In combination with established tumor markers, EDTA-plasma M2-PK is a useful ... M2-PK in EDTA-plasma even proves superiority as compared with CEA. Fecal Tumor M2-PK testing resembles a good ...