Not to say it can't show up in other places, but these are the most common areas for BC met's - lungs, liver, bones and brain. Looking back now, I experienced pain from the liver met's first, but the ER dismissed it (as did I). It was an intermitten thing. I then got a cough which was thought to be bronchial and was later treated as pnemonia. At that point, the docs were talking relapse and further testing was done to confirm met's in my lungs. The liver met's were confirmed by biopsy. hope my experience helps...
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Maryann
Stage IV Inflammatory BC 1/00
Mod Rad Mastectomy 24nod/5+
Adriomycin Cytoxin Taxol
Tamoxifen 4 1/2 yrs
Radiation - 32 x
Metastatic BC lung/liver 10/04
thorocentesis 2x - pleurodesis
Herceptin Taxatiere Carbo
Femera/Lupron
BC NED 4/05
chemo induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia 5/06
Induction/consolidation chemo
bone marrow transplant - 11/3/06
Severe Host vs Graft Disease of liver
BC mets to lung 11/07
Fasoladex Herceptin Zometa Xeloda
GVHD/Iron overload to liver
Avascular Necrosis/morphine pump 10/10
metastatic brain tumor
steriotactic radiosurgery
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