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Lani · 04-22-2015, 12:29 AM

It does happen (although it is relatively rare) that her2+ breast cancer metastasizes to the brain without having gross(macro) metastases elsewhere.

Her2+ breast cancer has a predilection for metastasis to the brain. It seems it is even more prone to metastasize to the brain when treated with herceptin (it was thought that it was only that patients lived longer while on herceptin so they lived long enough to get the brain mets, but mathematically it seems more than that)

Have you been staged with a PET-CT to determine if there are any other mets?

04-22-2015, 12:29 AM	#2
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,778	Re: Brain mets but no systemic disease It does happen (although it is relatively rare) that her2+ breast cancer metastasizes to the brain without having gross(macro) metastases elsewhere. Her2+ breast cancer has a predilection for metastasis to the brain. It seems it is even more prone to metastasize to the brain when treated with herceptin (it was thought that it was only that patients lived longer while on herceptin so they lived long enough to get the brain mets, but mathematically it seems more than that) Have you been staged with a PET-CT to determine if there are any other mets?