Please respect that this forum is for members with stage IV/metastatic breast cancer ONLY. There is a separate forum for caregivers and friends: <a href="https://breastcancer.vanillacommunities.com/en/categories/caring-for-someone-with-stage-iv-or-mets"><em>Caring for Someone with Stage IV or Mets</em></a>.
Other than living with stage IV for 12 years, my bc life is something I keep low key, even on bco. However after 12 years on an AI (I’ve tried them all) the cumulative side effects have worn me down.None of my se’s were truly debilitating and I managed to cope but I have been struggling with chronic low level pain that…
I just found out what I thought was stage 2/3 idc breast cancer with 1 positive node, has spread to my liver and I am now stage 4 de novo. I am only 39 years old. I have 4 young kids. There’s at least 6 spots in my liver. I haven’t even gotten a chance to start treatment and now I have no chance of fighting this???!?!…
Has anyone had a big lump from the shot. It has been several weeks since I have had the shot. There is a big Lump and it looks brusied.
Curious whether anyone else has had Xeloda as second line monotherapy after the Verzenio/Letrozole combo? 18 months on that but suddenly many more bone mets/lesions grown bigger so switch has been recommended by onc.
Okay, bear with. Last year was the sh*ttiest year of my life, bar none. My DH was dx with prostate cancer (now in active tx), I had my own crappy dx (in active tx), and probably the worst hurt was that we had to say goodbye to our own fur girl, Preshy, who had been in our family for 13 years. She was my soul. Got me…
Hi all, My mother is now on her third cancer battle. In 1995 she had non Hodgkins lymphoma - she had chemo, radiation and a stem cell transplant In 2018 she was diagnosed with triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma - mastectomy and chemo In November 2023 she began having pain in her sternum. A CT scan & bone scan showed…
Hi there, Just wondering how one knows which medication failed if you are taking a targeted therapy and an AI? My sister is on Ibrance and Letrazole and MRI was clear on spine in November and now a 19 mm spot on T2. Her tumour markers have also been slowly rising. Her cancer is lobular, estrogen positive, progesterone…
Hi, everyone. I was thinking about starting a Facebook group for those of us who have so many issues with imaging. I got some feedback from others that they did not want me to start a separate group, so I am starting a group here. Below is my post on Facebook so that you can get a sense of the imaging issues I've had.…
I've started this thread at the urging of fellow Stage IV sisters. I've been fortunate enough to get a lot of really good advice from friends, healers, therapists, etc., on how to fight the dark clouds that come with Stage IV. Not everything will work for everyone and not everything will work all the time. But hopefully…
This is not a huge problem, but I thought I’d throw it out to the community. As one of the side effects from the faslodex and/or Kisqali is dry skin, I’m curious to see if anyone has anything that has worked well for them? My face, in particular, is extremely dry and if you look up close (which I hope no one does), it…
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