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...g 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 good--...
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
Anyone with breast cancer mets to spine? I've had breast, chest wall, and brain. Now there is something to spine. Please someone answer me.
... my breast cancer lump felt. And it`s on the same side of my body. My question is, CAN breast cancer mets show up in the arm in soft tissue, before any other mets?...
...he arimidex is working because the size went down. 1 biopsy was negative and the other was positive for mets to chest wall. size of tumor is 0.8 cm pet scan showed 4.0cm. so they are shrinking. and th...
I have mets to spine and neck (as well as nodes and lung - but chemo starts next Friday), and was put on Dexamethasone while undergoing radiation. I have the "moon face", where it looks like I've gain
... What was different this time was that the tech labelled them as "unusual" "hot spots." If that means mets, so be it, but I am sure as h*## pissed that I have been discredited and made to look like ...
...... god i am only 50. anyone else here have this happen to them.. i know breast cancer can lead to mets but after 4 years. i think i have to blame myself cuz i stopped the tamoxifen last year ...
... other support groups--many have written they have had a single hot spot and have been treated for bone mets. I am guessing that what is going on here is that our HMO is looking to find multiple hot ...
I have a friend of a friend who was recently dx with brain mets after stage 2 BC over 2 years ago. Does anyone have an idea of average survival time after dx of brain mets?
Hi all, I have a question.. I had my BC treatments in 2000 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, ches
What are the (say 5 yr) BC survival rates for women who get mets vs no mets? How about 5 yr survival rates for women who have no recurrance of BC after the first round of chemo vs if the women get BC
...ance of tumor/metastatic disease.' That sounds wonderful to me--but can they rule out shoulder or other mets for sure? One thing, they did not include my upper arm in the MRI--that has hurt just as m...
...al therapy. I asked my oncologist what my prognosis for this coming back and the possibility of getting mets in any part of my body. He told me the percentages and then stated that because I was ER+...
Gloria's latest CT scan shows a metastasis to one of her lungs. This is uncharted territory for us. Any speculation on treatment options? (The CT report was very bad; about all we know is that the
...s up to something! http://bb67.wikispaces.com/ Dx 2/15/2006, IDC, 5cm, Stage IV, Grade 2, 24/27 nodes, mets, ER+/PR-, HER2- Fllorik Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 1353 Log in to post a reply Oct 4, 200...
My sister has Stage IV bc with mets to the spine. She just finished chemo (six cycles of Taxotere plus A/C) and will be having bilateral mastectomies in the next month or so. (No reconstruction becaus
...aid that everything looked the best it could, Grade 1, only 1 cm in size, negative nodes, negative for mets. I was told it would be a lumpectomy, 7 and 1/2 weeks of radiation with a possibility of ...
...d severe shoulder/upper arm pain with normal bone and CT scans. A PET scan showed that the patient had mets to her upper chest wall. My pain was and is in my non-lymphedema arm. He did not write th...
...eural effusion. Going for a cat scan tomorrow, but I'm wondering, 'Could this be something other than mets, or if mets, how possibly treatable ?' Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,...
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
...e next question is whether they are also going to do the brachial plexus area--not an uncommon area for mets and unfortunately my symptoms seem to correspond with that possibility. I thought when I ...
...ones, both femurs and upper arms bones. She has had a PET scan and a CT scan and they confirm the bone mets, but do not show any other mets. She is, however, getting a brain MRI since she has just s...
...ht things couldn'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 independentl...
...ey (oncologist and surgeon) are monitoring. Anyway, I emailed an article or two about this type of skin mets to my surgeon on Saturday and forgot about it. I was surprised when I received a call from...
...IBC and another board passed away. Her dr. told her she was fine in January (per tumor markers). Skin mets developed in mid March. She was buried 5 weeks later. What I know about my type of b.c.--p...
... NED until august 2000 when ca 27-29 rose to 100 so onc sent me for PET and ct scans and they came back mets from bc to chest wall upper mediastinum. i was put on arimidex..had bad reaction so i have...
Just pondering this.... If one develops mets in one location (lungs), without any problems, and doesn't immediately start chemo, would those mets be likely to subsequently travel to another location a
...le lesions (crap) that appeared suspicious. Dr Ostrow (onc) immediatley put me on arimidex and told me mets from orig breast cancer stage 4. i decided to take myself for 2nd opinion to Memorial S...
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).
..." on google. I wish it were only my imagination running wild. It can be a symptoms of brain or spinal mets. If I didn't have the other soft signs I would be less concerned. I have been experienci...
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
...ized. i am not jumping for joy yet but i am much happier now than i was in august to be told you have mets from bc scared the heck out of me well i dug deep and found that positive attitude again a...
My wife had BC last year, 4 nodes pos had lumpectomy, went through chemo, radiation and everything was going good. Then in Aug she had the left side of her face and left arm go numb. After getting all
Hi, everyone. I haven't posted in a while. My sister was diagnosed with Stage IV BC with mets to the spine about nine months ago. She had six cycles of TAC followed by bilateral mastectomies and radia
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