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Reoccurance..metastasis?
How is a reoccurance staged? If you reoccur in the same breast and it has not spread, is it considered metastatic breast cancer or does it have a seperate staging? My friend has just recently reoccured and on her pathology report it mentioned her new breast lesions as metastatic, this cannot be right is it?I was under the impression that it was only metastatic if it had left the breast and spread. It had been 3-1/2 years since her first cancer. She is HER2+. sherryg683
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Sherry
Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44
13+ positive lymph nodes
Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006
4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin
NED since April 2006!!
36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately
8 years NED now
Scans every year
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