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SandyBB · 09-21-2006, 09:30 AM

Lala, how did they do the bone biopsy - via a needle aspiration or core biopsy? Also, from your profile, it looks like you have liver mets too? Was the bone mets after they knew you had the liver mets? My onc said that a single bone met site was unusual if there were no other signs of any kind of mets...so if you already had mets to the liver, your single bone mets site would not be as relevant... but I sure do appreciate your sharing that bone mets can be found in only one isolated spot. As another reply stated - it has to start somewhere, right?

Thanks for the other replies - I thought about a second opinion, but the scan is now 2 and half weeks away so I figure I will wait til then...and consider a second opinion based on what transpires. The extra 6 weeks I will have waited should not actually make much difference in disease progression if it is bone mets...And I am actually not in that much pain anymore - still feel it but not anywhere near as bad as it was - which is also why the onc thought it was a trauma.

With the reply on the broken rib for sneezing - sorry I forget your name - did you have an x-ray too and did that show a fracture? My x-ray showed nothing...
thanks again to all.

09-21-2006, 09:30 AM	#5
SandyBB Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Central Massachusetts Posts: 25	Questions for those who were kind enough to reply Lala, how did they do the bone biopsy - via a needle aspiration or core biopsy? Also, from your profile, it looks like you have liver mets too? Was the bone mets after they knew you had the liver mets? My onc said that a single bone met site was unusual if there were no other signs of any kind of mets...so if you already had mets to the liver, your single bone mets site would not be as relevant... but I sure do appreciate your sharing that bone mets can be found in only one isolated spot. As another reply stated - it has to start somewhere, right? Thanks for the other replies - I thought about a second opinion, but the scan is now 2 and half weeks away so I figure I will wait til then...and consider a second opinion based on what transpires. The extra 6 weeks I will have waited should not actually make much difference in disease progression if it is bone mets...And I am actually not in that much pain anymore - still feel it but not anywhere near as bad as it was - which is also why the onc thought it was a trauma. With the reply on the broken rib for sneezing - sorry I forget your name - did you have an x-ray too and did that show a fracture? My x-ray showed nothing... thanks again to all.