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my best friend has brain metastisis
I was referred to this site from the beast cancer.org site. I posted there because my best friend, who was diagnosed with breast cancer 3 years ago, has the HER2 expression and has been on Herceptin since her first reoccurrence in the same breast immediately after her initial chemo and radiation. She has been doing very well this last year, no symptoms whatsoever. Then just this week she had headaches, nausea, and vomiting for 5 days. An MRI detected a 4 cm tumor at the base of her brain which the dr. says is malignant. She has no other spots they can detect at this time and will be having surgery tomorrow. I am encouraged by a few people who said they have survived many years post brain mets. If anyone has had this experience, I would sure appreciate hearing what treatments are available. I know there is a blood/brain barrier and believe they should have tested her before this since it is so big. Thanks for any help. I love her dearly. She's in Ill. and I'm in CA. I want to help and encourage,
Sandy
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