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Helpful BCO links on Recurrent and Metastatic Breast Cancer
For more information on this sensitive issue, visit the main Breastcancer.org site's sections about: * Symptoms and Diagnosis of Metastatic Breast Cancer * Recurrent Breast Cancer, including signs and symptoms to look for We hope this helps!--The Mods
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Is this Lung mets? Petrified with every day...
that goes by with this cough. So I'd like to start this with the fact that most of my adult life (now 63) when I get a cough, it hangs on for weeks, Most of the time we are talking 4-5 weeks. I started having a very very slight cough, I want to say last winter. It was so slight, I would cough once or twice in the morning,…
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My whole body feels scared - possible findings, biopsy and axillary aspiration
I was nervous just coming up on five years, and then my sonogram was inconclusive which caused days of fear, and then the second reading found a mass just by my nipple (on the good side) and enlarged lymph nodes (on my surgery side). Now I need a biopsy and an axillary aspiration and the soonest appointment is next Monday.…
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Stage 1A, released from treatment and concerned
Hi, I was diagnosed early 2020 with Stage 1A IDC with ITC’s in one node, HR+ IDC. I had a DMX, and 3 years of zoladex and letrozole. I was having really bad bone pain and tried different AI’s. They were worse. My MO felt it was ok to try tamoxifen. That was unbearable for me. I was happy to go back to the AI but my dr…
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Brain Mets question?
Hello, I am a breast cancer patient and i have a question. What are the symptoms of brain metases? Constant ear pain, sometimes with headaches, could indicate of the brain mets symptoms? thanks, a lot
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Soy Compounds May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
Soy Compounds May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Feb 1, 2024 Natural compounds found in soy might reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Read more…
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Rise in Tumor Marker
I’m about 1.5 years out of treatment with left IDC stage 1a triple positive. Had a routine blood panel run and my CA 27.29, which had never been high, was 159. A bilateral diagnostic mammo a few weeks ago was BIRADS 2 with a lingering, but shrinking seroma. They’d finally moved me back to annual screening mammos and six…
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Scares That Turned Out To Be Nothing
Husband here. My wife was diagnosed about 2 1/2 years ago. She is doing well. But that's not to say there haven't been more than a few moments of high anxiety thinking something's wrong or just waiting for test results to rule out a recurrence or mets. I hope it's ok with the great members here that I start a thread that's…
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CA 27.29 elevated
I finished chemo for Stage 2 ER+ Her2- about 7 months ago, then 20 rounds of radiation, and been on anastrozole and Verzenio since then. CA 27.29 was 21 about a month after chemo but was tested this week (6 months later) and has risen to just out of normal range at 41. I know these tests are not reliable on their own but…
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PET Scan results are on portal - have not heard from doctor
After being diagnosed with a new breast cancer (my third in the same breast but apparently not a recurrence based on pathology), I had a PET scan prior to my scheduled SMX. The results were in my portal a few hours after the test yesterday morning but now, a day and a half later, no one has called to discuss the results.…
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More Lung Nodules & They are Growing?!
So I have been on a watch since November 2022 due to lung nodules…really just one of several they worried about. Had a clean biopsy on the one in July 2023. However, I had to have a 6 month CT repeat. Received the report and many new nodules since June and some have grown since June. However, the radiology did not give an…
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All the things that weren't breast cancer
I thought I would post for those people who are searching for stories similar to their own symptoms. It's terrifying having those things pop up on scans that might be cancer, your head goes to all the worst places. Anyway, here's me. I was diagnosed triple pos stage 2-3 BC in Dec 2020, one node was positive on scans and…
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Jumping out of my skin/Drowning
I apologize in advance for being crazy. However, I am looking for some hope/positive thoughts... I was diagnosed in 2013. Last week I went in for my annual mammogram. I get a Contrast Enhanced Mammogram. They found an enhanced mass in the vicinity of where my original cancer was. An ultrasound showed a correlated oval…
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Skin Mets?
I have a red mark on my port scar for at least two weeks. It has not healed with corticosteroid for the past few days. The doctor does not think it is Mets. I’m planning to continue the corticosteroid before I go back to the doctor. It looks like the attached picture. Any chance it could be anything but Mets? (Edited by…
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PET scan
I'm six years out from double mastectomy for IDC and recently had an ultrasound for a pain on the cancer side which turned out to be benign, actually they couldn't find anything and think its muscular. Now it still hurts and went back to the dr. and he wants me to have a PET scan. I am terrified! Should i have just…
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Needle biopsy today for mama
Update and catch up from this thread Unsurprising, but I didn't get a ton of great sleep last night. This morning is my Mom's CT guided needle biopsy on the lung. I find myself nervous, although it's a supposedly routine procedure. My Mom is in her 70s, so…even the most routine of procedures could incur complications. But,…
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Possible Chest Wall Recurrence - Help
I am almost 12 years since my diagnosis. I had mastectomy, chemo, radiation, and Zoladex and Tamoxifen. I just found 3 tiny hard bumps below my scar. I don't know when they appeared but can't be that long ago. From what I read, this is most possibly a recurrence. I have made an appointment for Friday. My only hope is that…
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Possible Recurrence - Can I do it alone... again?
Stage 1 triple negative in 2012. Treated with surgery, chemo and radiation. I really thought I was out of the woods. I had absolutely no concerns until I found a couple of hard lymph nodes just above the same breast a couple of days ago. I sent an email to my old oncologist to see if it was anything I should be concerned…
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Suspicious tumor
I have been getting a contrast enhancement mammogram (CEM) every year since my diagnosis in 2013. I had one today and the radiologist saw a suspicious tumor so she did an ultrasound. Then told me I need to get a biopsy. When I asked if the cancer is back, she just kept repeating the tumor is suspicious and I need to go for…
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Anxious Liver Blood Count
Hi All Have been all good last 5 years but recent blood count showed liver out. ALP 230 and LDH also raised above 200. No elevation to Cancer Markers both low and well within range , however had pain in right shoulder for 2 mths. Wondering if anyone has had similar high liver levels and been something else. Attributed…
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Mom going in for chest CT today
I am sadly back here again after a few years away. My mom previously was diagnosed with breast cancer. They did radiation treatment, and then it was discovered to have spread to a nearby lymph node; she underwent surgery to remove it. Several months later, she was declared cancer-free. Over the last few years, she has had…
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Endoscopy today
Aside from the delay (1 hour late, stewing in my anxiety), the procedure went well. I was shocked they took 4 biopsies. I'm going to the ugly place. First concern is mets from lobular to throat or stomach…or would it be worse if it were a new primary gastric cancer. UGH.
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CT and Lung Nodules
I cannot find my previous thread, but this is my newest CT scan. So far I have had them in November, January, April, and today. I had a PET in November that lit up on a couple of spots in my left lung and three level 2 cervical nodes. Currently on a watch and see. Anyone have some information on this newest scan? Not…
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So Soon?!?!?
I had local recurrence diagnosed back in May. Since my breast cancer is ER+, I decided to go ahead and have a complete hysterectomy in June while waiting for my full mastectomy to be scheduled in mid July. During my mastectomy, my plastic surgeon placed expanders. I had those filled once a week until they were replaced…
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Full blown panic after CT scan 8/23/23
Hi all. Well, here I am, barely able to breathe…again. I went to see my oncologist for a lump I found in my upper abdomen-she felt it and said it was in my stomach. I have just been dx with IBS earlier this summer, right after my husband was dx with aggressive prostate cancer. I've been working with a good…
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Another elevated CA 27.29 question
8 years out. Stage 2-3. Number has always been around 30-41. Last time it was 32. Yeah! But this time it was 46. (Different lab from the last two years, btw.) Read this on a medical site: "An elevated serum CA 27.29 level in patients in remission of stage II or III breast cancer provided a positive predictive value of…
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Waiting on biopsy results and imaging tomorrow...
Last weekend (the 22nd) I developed painless, non-itching skin changes (redness, flat and kind of spotty) over the site where my tumor was with a spread counterclockwise around about 1/2 of my breast into the inframammary fold. I had a regular follow up appointment with my MO last Tuesday and brought it up. I had a…
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Worried about upcoming biopsy and next steps
Initially diagnosed in 12/2018 with triple positive IDC. Had full treatment and have been on AI’s ever since. Recent mammogram shows fine pleomorphic calcifications in the lumpectomy bed (BI-RADS 4). I have a biopsy scheduled for Thursday, and I am trying to figure out next steps if it is a recurrence. I had bad cording…
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Waiting for results of Biopsy for Melanoma
I finished tx for HR- Her2+ BC in November 2022. I just had a dark, very small mole biopsied. Im waiting for results. Im also at the one year mark to do scans. I was doing so well but now Im terrified again. I have so much anxiety. I feel like Im worse now than 2 years ago. I cant get past the fear that cancer is going to…
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Axillary region soft tissue
Left lumpectomy 2/23 and the radiation Months later, and I’m dealing with a chronic bronchitis cough. I had a Chest CT with contrast this past weekend. They ruled out a pulmonary embolism- due to other symptoms I have with the cough. The radiologist reported: “Soft tissue density that has increased size compared with the…
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Awaiting MRI for Bone Mets
Hi! Probably a common situation… finished BC treatment a year ago this week. Two months ago hip started aching on and off. Now a little more consistent especially at night. Went to GP thinking he would send me with referral to PT. Instead X-ray ordered and result is “patchy areas of sclerosis with two largest 3.1 cm on…