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alw · 07-13-2007, 07:50 PM

Thanks, so much, for your responses.

I'm just trying to figure out what a "good" MRI would read. It seems to be a similar situation in both bone and brain mets - where you often continue to have something show up on scans, but the news is positive according to the oncologist. And then again, I sometimes read that others have scans show up as "clean" or "NED" or something similar. It all seems like semantics, but it makes you question if things are really going in the right direction.

Fondly,

Amy

07-13-2007, 07:50 PM	#6
alw Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 63	Thanks, so much, for your responses. I'm just trying to figure out what a "good" MRI would read. It seems to be a similar situation in both bone and brain mets - where you often continue to have something show up on scans, but the news is positive according to the oncologist. And then again, I sometimes read that others have scans show up as "clean" or "NED" or something similar. It all seems like semantics, but it makes you question if things are really going in the right direction. Fondly, Amy __________________ Amy age 37 at dx Feb 2008 Multifocal DCIS Apr 2008 Bilateral Mastectomies Sister to Laura age 37 at dx April 2006 9 cm ER-/PR- Her2 +++/bone mets neoadjuvant TCH plus Zometa November 2006 bilateral mastectomy - Change to ER+/PR- Her2 +++ January 2007 innumerable tiny brain mets - WBR March 2007 good response to WBR - some gone, all smaller currently on Lapatinib and Xeloda Feb 2008 Brain MRI: brain mets went from innumerable (jan '07) to 5 (june '07) to 3 (oct '07) to 1 that is getting less conspicuous(feb '08) PET/CT: Slight uptake in some sclerotic bone mets