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sabpri · 04-05-2006, 08:35 PM

I was diagnosed with questionable mets to the bone (long story, but every scan showed something different) so they treated me as Stage 4 with mets to bone. I was given Zometa with chemo infusions and now have it every other Herceptin treatment now that I am done with treatments. My latest scan showed what was once lytic lesions are now no where to be found, and apparently those don't ever go away, so we are thinking it may have never been a lytic lesion to begin with. Anyway, talked to my Onc today and she said she will leave me on the Zometa and if scans again are clear in August then we will drop to Zometa every 8 weeks, as we will never be 100% sure if the mets were not there and she feels that in 5-10 years everyone will be getting Zometa prophalactively to prevent mets to the bones.

04-05-2006, 08:35 PM	#5
sabpri Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 43	I take Zometa every 6 weeks.. I was diagnosed with questionable mets to the bone (long story, but every scan showed something different) so they treated me as Stage 4 with mets to bone. I was given Zometa with chemo infusions and now have it every other Herceptin treatment now that I am done with treatments. My latest scan showed what was once lytic lesions are now no where to be found, and apparently those don't ever go away, so we are thinking it may have never been a lytic lesion to begin with. Anyway, talked to my Onc today and she said she will leave me on the Zometa and if scans again are clear in August then we will drop to Zometa every 8 weeks, as we will never be 100% sure if the mets were not there and she feels that in 5-10 years everyone will be getting Zometa prophalactively to prevent mets to the bones.