Stage IV/Metastatic Breast Cancer ONLY
Discussion List
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Question about new treatment for MBC
Recently diagnosed with MBC after removing two lymph nodes near liver which confirmed related to original lobular ILC in 2013. My oncologist has put me back on letrozole 2.5 and I will have blood work and pet scan on 12/6 to compare with pet scan in July. Then I may begin Ibrance, Verzinio or Kisquali. My question is does…
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HER2+ MBC. Anyone 5 years out?
My name is Peoy. Singapore Chinese. Dx Oct 2022 with 8 sclerotic bone mets from T8 to pelvis and lymph nodes. My cancer cells have morphed: ER80%+ to 5%+. PR+ to -. Her2+ remained 3+. Just started Taxol+Herceptin+Perjeta. Xgeva mthly. My MO said median prognosis is 57mths. I also hope to discuss HER2+ MBC treatment lines.…
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Surgery after “horse is out of the barn
This may be addressed somewhere else but I can't find it. Original bc 2013 with lumpectomy in left followed by 30 radiation. 8 years later shocked to learn MBC in liver. Been treated 19 months and lesions have shrunk and now CT shows some increased activity in that breast and I have been referred now to a breast surgeon…