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Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease

A place where family members, caregivers, and loved ones of people having a Stage IV (metastatic) diagnosis can share, discuss, and support one another through the tough times unique to this diagnosis.

Resources for MBC/Stage IV Caregivers
We hope you find the following links helpful! MBC Caregivers Zoom Meetup; Tuesdays, Bi-weekly, 4pm ET. Register here. Learn: Caring for Someone With Breast Cancer Podcast: Caregiving for Someone With …
Announcement
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Feb 18, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Dana Farber 2022-2023 EMBRACE MBC Virtual Forum Series
Hi all! We wanted to share with you a helpful series of five free online virtual forums about promising areas of research and treatment in metastatic breast cancer hosted by Dana Farber's 2022-2023 EM…
Announcement
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Jan 26, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Just an Update....its been a quiet few weeks....
Hello all. We have had impressive results since we started treatment in late January. Nadia has noticed a significant reduction in the size of the tumor in her breast. We should get a scan in the comi…
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Started by natron0802
Most recent by exbrnxgrl
Mar 15, 2025
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Find a person who would understand what I am going through.
I’m in my mid-40s and caring for my wife, who has stage 4 breast cancer. The cancer has spread to bones, then, after a few years of treatments, to the liver…, and they are now trying to enroll her in …
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Started by nathan_z
Most recent by moderators
Feb 11, 2025
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
What to expect from Kisqali (side effects)?
Hi, I'm a caregiver to my mom, who was diagnosed de novo with metastatic breast cancer just last month in August 2024. She has metastases to the bones, liver, and lungs, and she's scheduled for a brai…
Kisqali (ribociclib)
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Started by inspectorspacetime
Most recent by inspectorspacetime
Jan 17, 2025
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Extreme tumor markers (CEA, CA 15-3)
Hi Everone, I'm Peter; this is my first post in this forum. However, I used to read it a lot. I'm here to understand my wife's situation; maybe some of you have experienced similar things to what we d…
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12 comments
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Started by peter77
Most recent by norah2024
Jan 13, 2025
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Triple Negative Breast cancer with brain metastasis
My wife was on Trodelvy and showed no progression in the body and brain during the last scans. But her latest MRI is showing new brain Mets though she’s asymptomatic and the doctor is wondering if the…
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1 comments
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Started by saimax
Most recent by aprilgirl1
Dec 10, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
MBC to the bones
Hello 🙂 My mother today was diagnosed with MBC to her spine and hips. I read on the web that life expectancy is 19 to 25 months. Is that true? Sounds so little. I read some of your stories and I see …
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Started by tsiutsiu
Most recent by moderators
Nov 15, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Sacituzumab Govitecan (Trodelvy)
My wife was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer in 2022 and was on remission for a year, before her cancer relapsed in 2023. She had brain Mets and had her full brain radiated and was tak…
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Started by saimax
Most recent by rlschaller
Sep 14, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Living far from daughter with stage IV
my daughter was diagnosed stage IV de novo over 5 years ago and has been doing well and living an almost normal life I’ve been going to almost all of her appointments and scans We live about an hour f…
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Started by birchbark26
Most recent by birchbark26
Aug 5, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
In search of support after my mom's recent MBC diagnosis.
Hello everyone, Part of this is going to be me venting but also I have some questions if anyone is able to answer them. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer for a 3rd time at the end of May, this t…
Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC or Stage IV)
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Started by cityofangels16
Most recent by exbrnxgrl
Jul 6, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Stage IV - mets to liver and bones need advice
Hi all, Does anyone have experience with ascites/fluid build up caused by liver mets? To give a bit of context, my mum had breast cancer around two years ago and underwent chemo, lumpectomy, and radio…
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Started by miller.robert
Most recent by miller.robert
Apr 30, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Husbands/Partners of Stage IV Breast Cancer
I'm not entirely sure how to start; I don't post, I don't do Facebook and I have no idea how to go about this. My wife just went through her 2nd round of chemo for her2+ stage 4 breast cancer that als…
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Started by RoyL
Most recent by basquemomma
Mar 3, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
You Helped
Aloha I want to share how this site and this forum helped me through my late wife's final months. Ellen died July 11, 2020 at age 66 after surviving breast cancer for 25 years; she was first diagnosed…
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Started by ho-okele
Most recent by kaynotrealname
Jan 18, 2024
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Support
My daughter has stage IV breast cancer she was diagnosed De Novo and has been doing well for years I live 22 miles away which takes 46 minutes in normal traffic and over an hour with more traffic Betw…
Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC or Stage IV)
De Novo
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Started by birchbark26
Most recent by ctmbsikia
Sep 25, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Mom caring for 20 yr old daughter .....
I spend my days and nights researching trying to find a way to save my 20 yr old daughter, she was only 2 months out of treatment when she found out she is now stage iv. Mets to brain skull spine brea…
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Started by o2s
Most recent by birchbark26
Sep 23, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Wife diagnosed Stage IV de novo:
This thread was started as a response to member KBL's question in another forum about those diagnosed with stage iv ILC de novo. But that forum is for stage iv patients only so I could not post there.…
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Started by bighubs
Most recent by exbrnxgrl
May 8, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
please delete
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Started by abigailj
Feb 23, 2023
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Extensive liver mets - 9th line of treatment, any hope?
Hi everyone, my mum was diagnosed in April 2019 with Stage 4 breast cancer (de novo) with widespread mets to spine, liver and lungs. At the time she was only given 3 weeks to live however by some mira…
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Started by minp
Most recent by minp
Nov 27, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
My Biggest Fear Came True - Help
Hi Everyone, I'm so grateful that this community exists and that there are people who understand what I'm going through. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and has been battling it ever s…
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Started by heartbrokendaughter
Most recent by upstreaming
Aug 2, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
mixed feelings
I don't know how to start this topic I am still waiting to see the surgeon Thursday and I can't tell you how the waiting time feels like... every single cell in my body is literally aching, I just go …
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Started by fathea
Most recent by fathea
Jul 19, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Please share your experience, we care for mum and are lost
My mother had a total mastectomy and 43 lymph nodes removed in 2008. In 2018 Mets were found in liver, spinal column, and lungs. Bother times she underwent chemo and radiation. She has non-alcoholic c…
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Started by mexicanmary
Most recent by mexicanmary
Jun 23, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
O
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Started by zipmonk
Most recent by Kikomoon
Jun 2, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
My wife diagnosed stage 4 in Feb
First of all thank you for all your support. My wife is 41 and she was diagnosed Stage IV. She is on Femara+Ibrance+ zoladex met to liver. Her recent PETscan showed good improvement over the first. Re…
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Started by kenksx
Most recent by Ire83
Mar 3, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Radiation Alternatives to Brain Mets?
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I've been lurking on this forum and many others on this website and you all have been an inspiration to me and have provided a wealth of knowledge. For background, my mothe…
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Started by tokyo_nights
Most recent by LoriCA
Feb 6, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Mother in law stage 4 husband in denial
hello So my mother in law has triple negative breast cancer that is metastatic. It is in her lung and brain now. She just had surgery to remove a tumor from her brain. My husband seems to think everyt…
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Started by Tirai123
Most recent by lillyishere
Jan 24, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Liver issues or mets - TCM
Throwing this out there for anyone with liver Mets or liver issues. There is a Chinese medicine called pian tze huang, used mostly for liver cancer, liver issues and inflammation in general. My grand …
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Started by bong
Jan 11, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Lumps in Armpit Area
Can someone tell me if you have any information on a 2 lumps under my armpit after 12 years after initially being diagnosed with Stage II Breast Cancer? I had 12 lymphnodes removed in 2009. My dermato…
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Started by 12believe
Most recent by 12believe
Jan 11, 2022
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
MBC Caregiver Zoom Meetups Place to Keep Chatting
This is a safe space for our MBC Caregiver Zoom Meetup conversations to continue. This meeting takes place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 4pm ET. To register, click here: https://breastc…
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Nov 9, 2021
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
An Advanced Breast Cancer Prognosis
Caryn is a regular poster on Breastcancer.org. Diagnosed with ER+/PR+, HER2- IDC in August 2011, she had a bilateral mastectomy, radiation to bones, and is taking Aromasin as a hormone suppressant. Re…
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Started by traveltext
Oct 10, 2021
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Can you go in remission more than once
My mom has been dx with breast cancer in 2002. After surgery, radiotherapy, chemo and tamoxifen she was in remission. In 2015 she was dx stage IV mets to the bones. Has been on letrozole until this su…
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Started by Sunshineplease
Oct 10, 2021
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease
Share Your Caregiving Story
November is Caregiver Awareness Month and we thought it'd be a great time to thank the members of our Community (and our lives!) for the help they provide while assisting their loved ones in navigatin…
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Started by moderators
Most recent by AnnYan
Oct 9, 2021
Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease

Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease

Caring for Someone With Stage IV (Metastatic) Disease

Resources for MBC/Stage IV Caregivers

Dana Farber 2022-2023 EMBRACE MBC Virtual Forum Series

Just an Update....its been a quiet few weeks....

Find a person who would understand what I am going through.

What to expect from Kisqali (side effects)?

Extreme tumor markers (CEA, CA 15-3)

Triple Negative Breast cancer with brain metastasis

MBC to the bones

Sacituzumab Govitecan (Trodelvy)

Living far from daughter with stage IV

In search of support after my mom's recent MBC diagnosis.

Stage IV - mets to liver and bones need advice

Husbands/Partners of Stage IV Breast Cancer

You Helped

Support

Mom caring for 20 yr old daughter .....

Wife diagnosed Stage IV de novo:

please delete

Extensive liver mets - 9th line of treatment, any hope?

My Biggest Fear Came True - Help

mixed feelings

Please share your experience, we care for mum and are lost

O

My wife diagnosed stage 4 in Feb

Radiation Alternatives to Brain Mets?

Mother in law stage 4 husband in denial

Liver issues or mets - TCM

Lumps in Armpit Area

MBC Caregiver Zoom Meetups Place to Keep Chatting

An Advanced Breast Cancer Prognosis

Can you go in remission more than once

Share Your Caregiving Story

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