Spread to bones?

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  • wamo888
    wamo888 Member Posts: 1
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    epohdnayoj said:

    bone pain
    My doctors were concerned initially that I may have had bone metastases. However, the pain I suffered, which eventually was diagnosed through MRI scan to be sacral insufficiency fractures, was worse with movement and settled when I rested. I understand from my doctors and from my own research that the pain from bone metastases is constant and does not settle with rest.

    Regards, epoh.

    Mets to bone / skull
    My husband had a solitary bone met to his skull right at the hairline above the forehead. It grew quickly from nothing to a golf ball size pressing in on his brain within 30 days. He had 15 radiation treatments and it has reduced in size about a 1/4 of the full golf ball size. He never had pain or mental issues from the compression. He is now on monthly Zometa and yes was told it was a one time shot on the skull radiation to that spot.... so if it decided to grow again we could not re-radiate. His was EXTREMELY rare for location and solitary bone mets... bone scan revealed no other spots of mets. Original dx was 9/05 rectal cancer Stage IIIC with 4 out of 11 nodes positive for cancer cells.

    I hope something like Zometa could help with your bone pain. My husband is achy and flu like for two days and then back to "normal"....
  • Melanie781
    Melanie781 Member Posts: 33
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    wamo888 said:

    Mets to bone / skull
    My husband had a solitary bone met to his skull right at the hairline above the forehead. It grew quickly from nothing to a golf ball size pressing in on his brain within 30 days. He had 15 radiation treatments and it has reduced in size about a 1/4 of the full golf ball size. He never had pain or mental issues from the compression. He is now on monthly Zometa and yes was told it was a one time shot on the skull radiation to that spot.... so if it decided to grow again we could not re-radiate. His was EXTREMELY rare for location and solitary bone mets... bone scan revealed no other spots of mets. Original dx was 9/05 rectal cancer Stage IIIC with 4 out of 11 nodes positive for cancer cells.

    I hope something like Zometa could help with your bone pain. My husband is achy and flu like for two days and then back to "normal"....

    question for wamo888 and good thoughts to Krista
    Wamo888: my husband was dx 12/07 rectal cancer Stage IIIC w/4of15 pos nodes and 1of7 pos nodes from rt-groin (surgeon found swollen spot during original pre-surgical exam.) What kind of adjuvant, if any, chemotherapy did your husband have?

    Krista: wishing you strength with this new bend in the road.

    ~Melanie

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