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>.
I have Stage IV MBC with bone Mets to my pelvis. I have been suffering with R leg, hip, inner thigh, and abdominal pain for 3 months. Nothing showed on MRI or x-ray in Feb. I had a CT yesterday and it shows a incompletely healed R pubic Fx. I’m waiting for an appt with Ortho. Anyone out there have any advice. Rhonda
Hello sisters I’m new here and just diagnosed stageIV. Has anyone with this stage and still working?? I am a RN and single mother and I have to take care of my 11 years old daughter😭😭
Has anyone had experience with tumor markers increasing within the normal range? Since completing chemo/rads/mx after stage IV diagnosis (one unconfirmed met to the sacrum) I had been staying in the 13-14 range on the CA 15-3. I just had it increase to 19.6. I know that's a "normal" range, but it is still concerning to me.…
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…
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