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Alice, I have thyroid mets. I had no symptoms, it showed up on a routine Pet Scan. I was told it is extremly rare and my doctors had them re-run the biopsy to confirm. It is my same breast cancer spread to my thyroid... among all the other places.
You said you have a pressing feeling near your collar bone. That sounds more like a lymph node since the thyroid is higher up by your adams apple.
Hope it's nothing for you.
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Jean B
Inflammatory Breast Cancer 2003
A/C Taxol dose dense regimen
6 weeks radiation
1 year Herceptin
NED for 2 years and 4 months
Recurrence in July 2006 with extensive liver mets over 70%, tumor obstructing bile duct-gallbladder, mets to spine and pelvis, abdominal lymph nodes enlarged, mass on pancreas.
Hospice called in until Gemzar and Herceptin started in Aug. 2006
May 2007 pet scan shows only 1 liver lesion 1.1 cm. bone mets gone, no enlarged lymph nodes.
June 2007-Switch to Tykerb/Xeloda because markers increased
Sept 2007-tumor marker 357-2.4 cm mass on pancreas,1 cm lesion on thyroid, duodenum and more liver mets.--switch to abraxane/carboplatin/herceptin and doing much better
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