Bone Cancers
Discussion List
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STAR system RFA for spinal mets
Technically I am a stage IV colon cancer patient (3 1/2 years since dx). My mets were only to multiple distant lymph nodes the first couple years. Then I got mets to my bones - shoulder, collarbone, T1, T2, T5 and T6. Radiation took care of all except T5 and T6 - those were in the field of radation from some prior…
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CT Scan Results - Are Lytic Lesions Always Mets?
My mom who is an 11 year Stage 3 breast cancer survivor had an xray done for shoulder pain at the ER which was clear. A CT scan was ordered of the neck/chest/abdomen/pelvis because of her history and the results are suspicious for malignancy. We are going stir crazy waiting for an appt. for biopsy and she has a bone scan…
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mets
Hi all, I'm a breast cancer survivor (1 yr YAY!)so I also posted on that site. I have been having tenderness and enlargement, I guess you could say of my left lowest rib. Same side my breast cancer was on. That rib has always protruded a bit but it is defiantely sticking out more over the last maybe two weeks. It is tender…