Brain Mets MRI -How to Read?
For those who have been diagnosed with brain mets - I'm wondering how your radiologists have read that the mets have "resolved". I've seen some people post that they have been told their brain has been declared "NED" or something similar. I'm just wondering if that means that the lesions no longer show up on the MRI - or if the edema has been resolved - or something else? It seems that some continue to show necrotic lesions - but I'm wondering what others have experienced.
With much gratitude,
Amy
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Amy age 37 at dx
Feb 2008 Multifocal DCIS
Apr 2008 Bilateral Mastectomies
Sister to Laura age 37 at dx
April 2006
9 cm ER-/PR- Her2 +++/bone mets
neoadjuvant TCH plus Zometa
November 2006
bilateral mastectomy - Change to ER+/PR- Her2 +++
January 2007
innumerable tiny brain mets - WBR
March 2007
good response to WBR - some gone, all smaller
currently on Lapatinib and Xeloda
Feb 2008
Brain MRI: brain mets went from innumerable (jan '07) to 5 (june '07) to 3 (oct '07) to 1 that is getting less conspicuous(feb '08) PET/CT: Slight uptake in some sclerotic bone mets
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