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Here are some helpful resources if you've just been diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, also known as metastatic or MBC. Join our free Virtual Support Groups for MBC! All with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC; also called stage IV) Register: Mondays at 2:00 PM EST, Tuesdays at 8:30 PM EST and Wednesdays at 4:00 PM EST…
Hello, I'm 65 and have now been diagnosed with mets to my right lung following a pleural effusion. Probably mets to hips and ribs but awaiting a bone scan to confirm. I started Letrozole yesterday and in 3 weeks will start Abemaciclib in 3 weeks. My original BC was IDC Micropapillary Stage IIIa, Grade 3, with extensive LVI…
Hello everyone. I was here in 2018 and reasonably active for two or three years. I gradually drifted away due to confusing changes in the site, plus other members I'd gotten to know either dropping out or dying. But now I'm back because I've been diagnosed with bone mets. Apparently there are a lot of them, but they are…
I have not been here for several years. I was diagnosed in 2016 with stage 2A ER+ PR- Her2-, one positive lymph node. I had lumpectomy, chemo, radiation and just started my 10th year on anastrozole. Today I had my annual breast MRI and got a call from my oncologist shortly after. I have a highly suspicious 4 cm lesion in…
newly diagnosed HR+ aggressive lobular stage 4 with hundreds of bone metastases. Showed up on cr scan head snd mri neck when I complained of bone pain. Was PET negative and normal cmp and cbc so oncologist suspects bone only. However I read it ifnt easily picked up on PET as lobular grows in sheets. Oncologist said don’t…
I was recently diagnosed with her2 negative metastatic breast cancer stage 4 that is not in breast but now in bronchial, bone , abdomen , pelvis. I have been coughing a full year. Had breast cancer stage 1b in 2020. So recurrence. Wonderful Pulmonologist was one that finally found what was wrong through lung biopsy ! Went…
19 years ago (43YO) - DCIS, Uni Mastectomy, no further treatments Now - Postmenopausal (3 years), swollen supraclavicular lymph node (same side as initial mast), PET scan also found 2 other lymph nodes - intramammary at 2nd rib, and mediastinal node (near spine and heart). ER+, PR+, HER2- Dr says it is a unique situation…
Three weeks ago I thought I might have a retinal tear when I woke up one morning with bright flashes in my eye. But my optometrist saw something different. Long story short he referred me to an ocular oncologist and she diagnosed me with breast cancer eye metastasis after almost 9 years NED. It's a rare location (only…
Hello, My original diagnosis in June 2022 was Stage IB (T2N1mi) ER-93% PR-70% HER2 - (2+ by IHC 1.0 by FISH ) Ki-67-80% I did lumpectomy and breast reduction, 4 rounds of TC, and anastrozole switched to fulvestrant due to side effects. In April of 2025, my CA27-29 spiked and imaging was ordered. Signaterra negative for…
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