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two cents...sigh..for what it is worth, I NEVER had bone mets until ONE month following a typical laproscopy. They tubed me...lung machine, I didn't want it as in Europe this procedure is performed sometimes without general......and from the moment I woke up, I felt this horrible pain in my sternum--a PAIN I HAVE NEVER< NEVER HAD BEFORE, and being a weight lifter, I would have noticed...anyway, a bone scan a month later glowed like a star on top of the Christmas tree in the same spot where the pain never went away. Up until that time, although I had had bouts of liver mets, I'd never had bone mets...of course it is possible the bone mets was just there waiting to happen...and was a coincidence with the surgery. Yet so far, that one spot on the bone is all that is showing and now the CT says involution has occurred meaning the bone has returned to its normal size and shape (thanks to HERCEPTIN yeah) although the bone scan still lights up. The onc says this is because the cancer is still active and the herceptin is still hitting it and increased activity shows up on the scan...comments?? thoughts??? similar scenarios???
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