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Sorry you are down in the dumps but that happens to all of us. It's probably worse now with the Holiday season upon us.

I can't understand why your oncologist won't consider sterostatic on your brain met until your lung mets are under control. I was diagnosed with lung mets and a small brain met shortly after that. I was on chemo for the lung mets and had CyberKnife done for the brain met which was a total success. I did not have to stop my chemo in order to have the CyberKnife procedure done. I know that if you have WBR (whole brain radiation) you must stop chemo first but you should ask your oncologist about CyberKnife or GammaKnife. The CyberKnife procedure took about an hour and a half, was completely painless and did the job on my brain met. I'm still on chemo for my lung mets and my last scan showed slight improvement. Now my problem is that I have pneumonia and was unable to get chemo last week and probably will not get it this week either. But I'm still getting my Herceptin.