Metastatic breast cancer and melanoma

I can’t imagine how horrible this would feel. @mglinkhart I imagine this has not been your best year. I would love for other members to chime in here but I really felt like I needed to tell you that you are not alone. I do not have these all over my body but I have had a few pop up. I wrote it off to working in the sun when younger and not realizing how dangerous the sun could be. It could be because our immune system goes haywire with the BC.
What did your oncologist say about this? How is your BC doing right now?

Hi Chris, thank you for replying. My oncologist literally just lets my dermatologist deal with it. She says this happens with some breast cancer patients. I can sit here and just literally watch them grow on me. Some of them are smooth and some of them it’s the rough ones that generally turn out to be melanoma when I first found them I figured I’ll just let them go and my doctor said no you won’t because we don’t need to worry about fighting another type of cancer at the same time. So I get them all removed and have a little divots, but at least they take all the cancer away for a little while until another one pops up I have met liver, lungs, bones, lymph nodes breast, and this is a reoccurrence from 2011 so I had quite a few good years , I’ve been through Ibrance and I’m now on a tour which seems to be physically working OK but I don’t know if it’s actually working yet I go on 10 January to get a CT and see if there’s been any progress or if it’s coming back, so that’s gonna be the determining factor as to whether or not I stay on this current oral chemo. Thank you for reaching out to me. Blessings to you and your family. Have a wonderful Christmas. I know I will Maria.

What is "a tour"?

Afinator!

A very huge hug to all of you that sent hugs. Thank you for the support. Every single person on here is going through some version of the same thing and we all know it’s not easy. But we have each other we have God and we have another day. Have a blessed Christmas to you all celebrate what you still have and for one day at least don’t think about any of this, that is the best gift you can get. Maria.

Why do you refer to Afinator as "a tour"? How long have you been taking it?

I call it that cause my fat fingers sometimes don’t type correctly! Basically it was a typo…

Sorry to hear about your MBC and melanoma. Just curious if you had genetic testing since the BRCA2 mutation is connected to both breast cancer and melanoma.

Not yet. I go in January for that. I am er/or positive Her2 negative. I didn’t know that thank you for sharing that.