I am about to have cycle 9 of 12 of my chemotherapy for cancer of the caecum - this is administered every two weeks. I am having Folfax and part of that is ‘BEVACIZUMAB’. In February of this year when I started Chemotherapy, my Cancer Antigen reading was 3773 and has dropped significantly to a reading of 33 now and My CEA which was 61 has dropped to 8. These reductions are due to the BEVACIZUMAB as far as I know.

Now, with just 4 cycles to go, the BEVACIZUMAB is to be stopped for 6 weeks or so. This is so another hospital can replace my urinary stent after 6 months since fitting in a couple of weeks time. I understand this change needs to be done, as the safe life of the stent is 6months, but I’m so worried that my tumour markers will rise dramatically again. Is that likely to happen do you think? I certainly don’t want to go backwards with my treatment.

Kind regards.

Mike