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>.
Hi everyone, I'm currently in remission, stage IV bone mets, BRCA2 positive patient. I should be doing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in the next few months and I want to check if there's anyone here who did it? If yes, how did it go? How did you feel afterwards? Thanks!
hello. i got scan rusults yesterday. looks like abraxane is not working, since cancer is spreading. i am going on navelbine now. any words of encouragement? thanks. i am new to the boards, happy to find you all barb
After my original diagnosis and chemotherapy surgery radiation I did a clinical trial for verzenio for people who were not stage 4 I was on verzenio from December 2021 to October 2023 March 2025 I went to metastatic breast cancer I saw my doctor yesterday and she’s thinking that cancer may have come back when I was on…
Hi All - Does anyone know why an oncologist would treat with an AI like anastrozole rather than fulvestrant? I'm currently on anastrozole and ribociclib (Kisqali). For my initial diagnosis of Stage 1A IDC (HR+, HER2-), I had lumpectomy, radiation and started anastrozole. 6 years later (this past January), mets in my lung…
Hi, All As I am going through my treatment of mBC ILC I, like many others, have Side Effects that I’m trying to overcome to be on the treatment and lead my life as normal as possible. So I decided to post some tips that worked for me. When my recurrence was discovered during endoscopy I had small lesion in my stomach…
stage 4 triple neg breast cancer Starting doxil soon. Telll me everything !💕 Thank you
I didn't see a top for the Guardant testing so I thought I'd start one. Does anyone know what it means when the first Guardant test showed a PIK3CA mutation, and then ten months later, it doesn't show that? I might need to change my treatment if I no longer have this mutation!
Hello, I looked at this paper published in "The New England Journal of Medicine on 31.05.2023 with regards to Capivasertib. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2214131 1. In general Capivasertib is AKT inhibitor for patients with AKT pathway–altered (PIK3CA, AKT1, or PTEN) tumors. It's given with Fulverstrant. 2. The…
I’m not sure why today is any different than the last two months when I’ve known I’m stage 4 with bone mets and my days are going in the negative direction. Maybe because tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and as usual, nothing in the mail from my kids. I guess they aren’t thinking that this could be my last Mother’s day and that…
This post is for those of us with concerns and issues about death and dying to talk about them. IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE IT, THAN GO TO A DIFFERENT POST PLEASE. We do not need people telling us to live life or to hear that other people have lived a long time, we have concerns. We are living life and would like for our…
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