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Orioles' Trey Mancini Discusses June Cancer Scare: 'I Was Thinking the Worst'

Baltimore Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini said he went through a scare in June after he received carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) test results that suggested his colon cancer may have returned.

Mancini, who sat out the 2020 season while undergoing chemotherapy treatments before being declared cancer-free, told Dan Connolly of The Athletic on Thursday subsequent tests showed the cancer cells hadn't returned.

"Me, overthinking it, I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that my CEA was normal for quite a few times, and now it's elevated," he said. "I was thinking the worst.