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Are your other Liver numbers elevated as well (AST, ALT)? If it is just the Alk Phos, this could also have something to do with the bone, BUT to be sure you can have a GGT Test ( Blood Test)that will let you know if it has to do with Liver or Bones.
Since you don't want a Scan of the Liver, I would suggest maybe an Ultra Sound of the Abdomen or an MRI.
You wrote<<Hi HER2 Friends,
My recent blood test showed ALK Phosphatase at 142; Reference Range is 38-126. I have had extreme nausea since my last Herceptin and stomach is swollen. I have had 40 of 52 treatments. I put Herceptin on hold and refused Scan of Abdomen (to protect liver) No barium sulfate for me (Metal). What other test options for the liver ? <<
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Vicki
Texas
Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 Age 48
MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5cm, and 6 cm (right side)
IDC (poorly differentiated infiltrating ductual carcinoma)
5+/16 nodes
Stage III A
Grade 3
ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++
Ki67 78%
Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense , 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)
28 Rad's ended October 13 2005
Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year
Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed incresed micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.
Brain MRI Feb.2006--All Clear
August 28, 2006 Last Weekly Herceptin.
October 2006--Colonoscopy, 6 Polyp's removed--all B9
PET Scan July 2007
Abdominal MRI Oct. 2007---2 Right Kidney Cysts
Core Biopsy-- Lump on Scar Line 1-10-08---B9
Brain MRI 6-2008--All Clear
PET/CT Scan 6-2008
Sept. 8 2008, 4CM area removed from mastectomy scar line. Proved to be B9.
PET/CT Scan-- July 2009 --All clear
August 17,2009 ---Had Port Removed
6 Years NED -- April 5,2011
DX'd with Melanoma left arm 10-10-2011
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