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Wondering if I'm taking the right path...
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 23 8:48am | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
I feel that we need to distinguish metastasis from local recurrence. This discussion gets confusing for me. My perception is that "coming back" refers to local recurrence and "spread" refers to metastasis. Maybe I am wrong. I dread the latter a whole lot more.
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Thank you for pointing out that the research is about metastasis, not recurrence. Unfortunately there is no reliable test to predict cancer metastasis. We just have to watch out for symptoms.
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Yeah - me too. I dread the spread. If I had a local reoccurrence - I might consider a mastectomy. It depends on the circumstances. I was recently diagnosed with a "lesion" on my liver. I went to my primary & insisted that they diagnose it further. I don't like the word lesion. maybe I can ask my primary about the BCI test. I also had a cyst on a kidney - they did an MRI & decided it was a water filled cyst & not a solid tumor. I guess I'll be on the lookout the rest of my life. I'm 69 now. That panel I went to was discussing metastasis recurrence.