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How brain mets found
I'm almost afraid to fess up about the brain met symptoms because I don't want to alarm all of you healthy people!
I began having mild intermittent headaches a couple months ago and initially blew it off as holiday tension. My oncologist ordered an MRI, more to appease me because he didn't seem concerned (I was staged in June). Well, wouldn't you know the MRI found 7 very small tumors. Neither my oncologist or the radiology oncologist believe these tumors caused headaches because I have no brain edema. The princess and the pea story comes to mind...
I'll be starting 15 rounds of WBR (whole brain radiation) next week. I'm hopeful this will take care of these.
Good health to you!
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Michelle
Stage 2 '99, triple negative, 5 nodes involved
mastectomy, AC + T, rads, '01 TRAM flap
Stage 4 '06, lung mets, ER/PR-, HER2++
07/06 - 11/06: Taxol + Herceptin to 'strong partial remission'
11/06: Herceptin every 3 weeks indefinitely
01/07: brain mets, finished WBR, NED in head!
04/07: Xeloda and Tykerb for lung met progression
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