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...etting another prophylactic Zometa infusion next week (osteoporosis prevention, although possibility of bone mets has not been completely ruled out). My alkaline phosphatase level, however, is very g...
For those who have bone mets, can you please describe the symptoms of these that led to your diagnosis?
Was/is the pain a constant ache?
Did/does it present like a skeletal injury?
Is the pa
...fter 2 years (februari this year) recurrence with extensive lung involvement, no metastases in liver or bones. Treatment with 6x Taxol in 18 weeks and every week Herceptin. Now for the possible side-e...
...t bitter and sad at the moment. I should be angry, too, but that emotion has been used up. Just had a bone scan.
It hurt to lie still that llong due to the sciatic pain on the left side.
Ouch. I ...
Okay, as I mentioned I had another bone scan earlier this week. I should be thrilled with the report. I picked up a copy of the films and the report yesterday. The report reads 3-lines. It states
...00 and since then have had a slight raising on my blood tumor markers. I had, about 3 or 4 months ago, bone scan. CAT scan, PET scan, chest xray, before a D&C, and a Mammo. All reported clear. Fo...
...he neck, and those in the chest wall.
Distant recurrence. Occurs in other parts of the body, such as bones,liver, and brain.
Things to ask the doctor about recurrence of breast cancer:
Diagno...
...ths. Aside from hot flashes and my period returning, can anyone tell me what else to expect? I had some bone density loss and am wondering if it will return naturally or do I need to take something fo...
My wife has stage 4 breast to bone to liver ca. She was informed that she received by error 2 three month Lupron shots in consecutive months. She is concerned about the side effects, although her on
...tisone to the shouder 4 weeks ago. Could the cortisone also affect the results?
My concern is possible bone and/or spinal mets. I began having lower back pain either before or soon after dx. 6 mos....
...eferred me to the spine M.D.'s. The spine M.D. recommended surgery to remove the cyst and rough up the bone to prevent its return. His partner whom we all consulted with recommended the same. I ask...
...dex in September. I've read that about 30% of patients on Arimidex experience joint pain. She's had a bone scan, chest x-ray and bone density test... all are normal. She's tried ibuprofen, no relief...
Help! It's a long story, but I have to have a bone marrow biopsy tomorrow (Friday) AM. I've had lots of blood work the past week, and more scheduled, and my counts have all been too high. Onc. worrie
...of reconstructed breasts.
I came home to a message they had my test results and wanted to schedule a bone scan.
Background I have low calcium, I produce none, I have to take 16 calcium pills a d...
...yone with experience using Arimidex. My wife's been on it for about 4 months, and she's started getting bone/joint aches. She did a little reasearch, and learned that about 30% get this side effect. S...
...rimidex.
I tried to explain to him that I have stomach and osteo problems and the
Arimidex may cause bone loss and joint pain. He said the "cancer" if it returns can be more fatal than the other t...
... bigger in some areas.
Anyway, around this same time we did 2 'unrelated things.' Because of the last bone scan report---for which the clinical hx had said that I had shoulder pain (which I did) and...
Meaning just mets to the lungs without mets to the liver or bones....or elsewhere.
I was dx with lungs mets last Fall and since my symptoms have gotten worse I'm ready to start chemo. I'm having a po
...ary Bladder: Cystitis
Kidney: Pyelonephritis
Liver: Hepatitis
Bone: Osteomyelitis
Cover layer of the
brain and spinal cord: Meningitis
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...shes, mood swings and sexual problems linked to the menopause and to stave off osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease.
The Swedish decision followed moves by American and British scientists who also s...
...ancer in my family for at least 4 generations, and i think one grandmother has dense breasts...there IS bone cancer a generation away from me...does that mean i am more prone to breast cancer, or are ...
...ause things are not looking very encouraging for my
Mom (71). She has stage 4 b/c, metastacized to the bones, both femurs and upper arms bones. She has had a PET scan and a CT scan and they confirm ...
...uldn't get any worse, they do.
Review: Mom had metastatic breast cancer for 11 years with mets to the bones and Ovarian cancer for 1 year (new primary). She was living alone independently with daily...
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Herceptin and, apart from a nurse practitioner finding a lump which turned out to be part of her breastbone, all seems to be going well.
She is flying to Egypt in March, (about 6 hours or so), and i...
...n't been able to stop 'those' thoughts, though that occur randomly--at times when the area of my collar bone aches or areas in my arm pit or when I feel that vague fluid-like sensation in my chest (al...
Letter received today:
"I now have the result of your recent bone scan, which shows changed compatible with arthritis only.
...ther words, do cancer cells break away from a metastasis and travel via the bloodstream or lymph to the bones or liver?
Or....do the cancer cells break away only from the primary tumor and lie dorma...
...79..not concerned yet and then august markers rose to 100. he then sent me MRI cat scan and PET scan bone scan clear, pelvis clear, kidneys pancreas clear. chest wall showed multiple lesions (crap...
I have been battling bone mets for quite sometime..my cancer has not spread to any of my organs..yet. After I had been through the usual protocol(chemo...etc..then Zometa and Faslodex for a while).
Just wanted to let everyone know my wife's bone scan was okay. I had earlier posted about a pain she'd had in the ribs in the lumpectomy area. Her onc prescribed a bone scan. Everything was fine. (It
Friday November 28, 2008
Bone loss due to more than cancer drugs
CHICAGO (UPI) -- Certain cancer drugs can cause bone loss in breast cancer survivors, but cancer drugs aren't the only culpri
...ve and helpful to me. I was diagnosed with invasive lobular bc in 9/01. Two weeks ago I had an annual bone scan done with showed a "hot spot" on my right tibia. I have just returned home from havin...
... (Grade III) last August. Following surgery, a CT scan then discovered secondaries in her lung, liver, bone marrow, chest lymph nodes and spine. She`s just finished chemo where it`s worked quite we...
My mom is stage 4 HER2 positive with mets to the bone and lung. She was told today that her chemo treatments (Paraplatin and Taxol, I believe) being done in conjunction with her Herceptin will end (go
...yone taking Celebrex with Arimidex and or Fosomax for the purpose of prevention of BC and/or increasing Bone density? Would be interested in information on appropriate indication and contraindication...
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