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Ibrance and Liver Lesions: What's your experience?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 7, 2023 | Replies (30)

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Hi Colleen, I appreciate your response. I have noticed that metastatic liver lesions alone aren’t as common. Also, I’ve read about Ibrance on Pfizer’s website and that it only increases the Progression Free Survival 5 months on average although some ladies have been on it for years. How often did you have the CT Scan? What chemo drugs did they put you on? Bad side effects? Do you know if it’s helping yet or did you have another scan? Thanks. I’m only a couple of months into Metastatic status. I’m still figuring this out. Sadly it seems I was probably Metastatic from the first diagnosis. Warmly, Trivia

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Hi Trivia,I think your reply was related to what I posted (not Colleen) so I’ll respond as if that’s true. My first Mets location was my stomach and 16 months later discovered liver lesions. I started Ibrance at that time and had two CT’s in 5 months where we thought the disease was stable until the MRI already mentioned. I am taking Zeloda, a pill form of chemo instead of traditional chemo which the oncologists thought I’d be able to tolerate better given weight concerns. I’m only on the second cycle (two weeks on, one week off) and side effects to date have included face rash, mouth sores and hand/foot syndrome; certainly not pleasant but I’m managing. Will do another scan after four cycles to see if helping. It can be really daunting to read/absorb/process drug statistics, for me it helps to reference websites such as this one to get insights to what others have experienced, and keeping the faith that I’ll be one of those women to live for lots and lots of years with a Mets diagnosis. Wishing you well, Trivia, as you move along the Mets journey.