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Old 06-21-2008, 04:19 PM   #1
Ceesun
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Question Please explain...

I have read on several posts of sisters with skin mets. What are these and how do they look? Where do they occur? I thought breast cancer went to bones, lung, liver and brain...did not know about the skin. Ceesun
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Old 06-21-2008, 06:22 PM   #2
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Skin mets present in many different ways. Some are small hard tumors or nodules. Mine were mixed. Some were like pimples some like a rash. Sometimes they burn, itch or ulcerate and become open wounds.

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4/2005 radiation and Herceptin
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2/14/2008 met to sternum, possibly right breast
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Right breast confirmed met
5/15/08 skin mets gone, no hypermetabolic activity in breast, sternum healing
8/24/08 scans still look good. sternum still active with scarring. No evidence of progression
10/08 Progression in sternum
12/08 Start TDM1 trial
1/09 Scans show stable
12/09 1 year on TDM1 still stable
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11/10 false positive of liver mets; tykerb and herceptin
4/11 Tykerb/Herceptin/Xgeva
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Old 06-22-2008, 08:42 PM   #3
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Please explain

Yes. It is possible to have skin mets. I had some about 6 years ago. They looked like little bumps on my chest. I went to my dermatologist who removed them with minor, non invasive surgery. The pathology report stated that they were in breast tissue. Women can have breast tissue where there are no breasts. I was lucky. The other women who had them, but did not choose to have them removed experienced mets in other places like the lungs, abdomen, ovaries, other areas of the skin and the throat. I had them removed before they caused mets.
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