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If you are having a bone scan, it is a test that is checking for mets to the bones and is completely different than a bone density test. With a bone scan you are injected with a radioactive dye and then scanned.
A bone density test checks for osteoporosis and not mets. A bone density test can be done at your primary care physician's office if he has the equipment (mine does) and takes about 3 minutes. With a bone density test you just sort of lay on a table and certain areas of your body are measured by a machine - no dye is injected and you are not actually scanned.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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