Table 4 Combined target therapy or not and the correlation with the treatment response by the image and the CEA.

From: The clinical experience of the prognosis in opposite CEA and image change after therapy in stage IV colorectal cancer

Treatment response assess by image (n)

Target + chemotherapy/chemotherapy

CEA-RD

CEA-SD

CEA-PD

CR

0

0

0

PR

39.6%/19.5%

8.3%/5.7%

6.3%/3.5%

SD

16.7%/18.8%

4.2%/7.8%

4.2%/8.5%

PD

10.4%/10.3%

2.1%/8.9%

8.3%/17.0%

  1. CR complete response, PR partial response, SD stable disease, PD progressive disease, CEA-RD response disease by CEA, CEA-SD stable disease by CEA, CEA-PD progressive disease by CEA.
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