Miracles happen! No residual signs of metastatic disease!

[abitjaded]

Dear all,

Got good news Friday, PET of brain is clean. MRI of body shows nothing else!

Anyone else clear after initial mastec, axiallary pos, two years out and one WBRT treated brain met?

What treatment? Any preventative treatment if you are clean after a met?

Carla

Dx July 2006 right breast Age 52
Found by self, always cystic, did not resolve after two rip roaring heavy peri-menopausal periods, 4-06, 5-06 after no periods for 4 mos
Invasive ductal grade III, high grade 3.2 cm ultrasound bx, pos lymph
PR- ER- Her2Neu+ grade 3, IHC3+, FISH 4.3
Mastectomy Aug 2006,
Axillary node dissection 3 of 9 lymph pos, invasive to fatty tissue
Radiation mastectomy site+ 30tx, 9-06 38 Gy?
4 cycles AC 3 wks apart start 9-11-06
4 cycles Paclitaxel 3 wks apart finish 2-11-07
Herceptin start during tax, 52 weekly doses total 12-4-06 start finish 11-27-07
MUGAs normal, but not one single CAT or MRI at any time during dx or tx
Hemmorohoidectomy, ER 4-07, no relief, anal fissure surgery 5-07
Mammo 7-2007 on left suspicious, 6 films over two weeks
Stereo bx, finally cleared weeks later, micro Ca
One yr follow-up 4-2008, missed due to ER visit, ha!
4-9-08 found wandering halls at work
Lots of weird stuff a month or so, blamed gabapentin for periph neuropathy, and stress started a month or so before brain symptoms
ER 4-9-08, admitted ICU
One week ICU massive steroids
Tumor on surface of right parietal, frontal lobe, 1cm? tumor, 4x5x6 cyst
Her2Neu+, IHC>3, FISH 10 yikes
Neurosurgeon got tumor 4-14-08! Little scraping, slight left ataxia left only!
Started WBRT on 4-28-08, 10tx of 3Gy for total of 30
PET 5-19 clean!, MRI 5-28 clean!, Neurosurg follow-up 5-28
Then wait and see, meet with Oncologist 5-30 to “See if I responded to radiation"