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Metastatic breast cancer: Anyone else?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 12 3:44pm | Replies (213)Comment receiving replies
I didn’t mean you weren’t advocating for yourself. It just seems some oncologists will not do minimal testing and I don’t know why. I expressed localized pain to my oncologist quite often and she wouldn’t even order blood work. She suggested taking gabapentin, increasing magnesium and suggested taking Claritin but was so shocked she wouldn’t order a PET scan. I discovered a lump in my clavicle in November and turns out breast cancer has returned and it has metastasized. CT showed swollen lymph nodes on both sides.
I’ll be starting chemo the end of January.
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Hi @mssewest, I just thought I'd pop in as I was thinking about you. You'll be starting chemo soon, right? What regimen are you starting and how often will you be having treatment?
How are you doing today?
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i am sorry you are in the midst of this new situation. What we all wait for, subconsciously or consciously. Without the lump in the clavicle I wonder when it would have been found. My oncologist discharged me at years out, even though risk continues to go up for hormonal cancers. I found another one. COVID has been a factor in not following up in person. Good luck with the chemo!