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KirisMum · 12-29-2013, 05:10 PM

Wow. All. Can say is that my daughter fits all the criteria above, was screened for headaches that turned out to be not related to the numerous (about a dozen) brain mets discovered on MRI, 8 months after her diagnosis as stage IV with mets to liver. Dr. Winer is head of the Breast Oncology Dept at Dana Farber where she is being treated, and they do not scan routinely for brain mets for women with her profile-- young, her2+, visceral mets. I am only thankful her oncologist is proactive about any possible symptoms. She's had WBR and is doing well, will be scanned next month for results. Her oncologist told her exactly what the study above suggests, that the liver mets were considered primary in terms of her prognosis, not the brain mets. I am so sorry about Courtney and NEDenise. :-'( Thank you, Lani & Steph.

12-29-2013, 05:10 PM	#3
KirisMum Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 186	Re: Occult (silent, asymptomatic) brain metastases in her2+ patients Wow. All. Can say is that my daughter fits all the criteria above, was screened for headaches that turned out to be not related to the numerous (about a dozen) brain mets discovered on MRI, 8 months after her diagnosis as stage IV with mets to liver. Dr. Winer is head of the Breast Oncology Dept at Dana Farber where she is being treated, and they do not scan routinely for brain mets for women with her profile-- young, her2+, visceral mets. I am only thankful her oncologist is proactive about any possible symptoms. She's had WBR and is doing well, will be scanned next month for results. Her oncologist told her exactly what the study above suggests, that the liver mets were considered primary in terms of her prognosis, not the brain mets. I am so sorry about Courtney and NEDenise. :-'( Thank you, Lani & Steph.