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I don't know if you read it, but I posted on almost this exact situation a few weeks ago. I went in for a bone scan because my hip has been really hurting for the last 6-8 weeks and on the scan a spot showed up on my ribs- not the side that I was radiated on. I did have a clean scan after my mast., so it was very alarming. After an x-ray, and a CT, the doctors and techs felt that it was not mestastatic and that I must have injured myself and don't remember it. They are going to check it again in 3 months. My rad. onc. also said that it is very uncommon for mets to present initially to the ribs (10%). It is very possible that you have injured yourself and that everything is ok. I do completely understand how you feel and was horribly upset that I might have reoccured so soon. I will be saying a prayer for you.
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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