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cplatt80 Posts: 28
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Hello friends. I'm back, unfortunately! My mom was doing wonderfully, having been off of chemotherapy for some time now and taking only Herceptin. Her cancer in her liver and lungs was all but non existent! Life was good... And then she started seeing bursts of color in her left eye...Her dr order a ct scan and we found out Wednesday that she has more than twenty masses scattered throughout most of her brain. The largest being almost an inch and in the cerebellum area. She starts whole brain radiation tuesday. Our world is crushed... I can't breath... Candice Candice (daughter of a fighter) in IL
Mom age 50.
Orig Dx 10/07, R-Mastectomy, 17 Lymph nodes removed, thin layer of muscle on chest wall removed.
2nd Dx: 6/17/08 Stage IV, IDC, ER-, PR-, HER2+++, Extensive mets to liver (over 50%), minimal mets to lung lining, severe hypercalcemia.
Start Tx 7-3-08: Decadron, Aloxi, Ativan, Zometa, Taxol, Carboplatin, Herceptin, and Avastin or a placebo in place of the Avastin.
9-19-08 Scans showed mets to lungs gone, small lesions in liver gone (over 50). 10cm liver in liver shrunk 50%, 9cm liver in liver shrunk 30%. Discontinue Taxol & Carboplatin.
11-10-11 scans showed >20 brain mets, sched to start WBRT 11-18-11 (14x)
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