Lung mets during active chemo treatment??
Hi everyone,
I'm trying not to be paranoid, but for the past few days I've had a cough that seems to be getting worse. It started with a sore throat a couple of weeks ago and a fever that put me in the ER for 4 hours overnight while I waited for the results of my blood and urine tests (all normal). The sore throat got better (and the fever was gone when I arrived in the ER), but I seem to be very sensitive to air conditioners or changes in temperature. I've been coughing almost the whole weekend as if there's something tickling my throat.
So now I'm paranoid that I have lung mets. I'll go in for a chest X-ray tomorrow before my chemo (3rd dose of Taxotere) on Tuesday. The chest x-ray had already been scheduled as part of the clinical trial I'm in to monitor for side effects of Tykerb.
In any case, is it possible that I've developed lung mets during my active treatment? What are the changes of that? I hope/believe what I have may just be a cold, but thought I'd check anyways. Has anyone had a stage I-III cancer progress to stage IV during active treatment?
Thank you so much!!!
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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