Rash appeared on second breast after second AC chemo treatment

Betsk

Hello! Thank you for all of the information and support everyone posts here. My mother was diagnosed with IBC recently in her right breast. A CAT scan and bone scan showed no evidence of spread anywhere else. She is Estrogen and Progesterone positive, but HER2 negative.

The day after her second AC chemo treatment, she noticed a red rash on her left breast. This left breast has a tumor, but it was determined before that the tumor in this breast is benign and that the mass in her right breast was ibc. Has anyone ever had a rash appear after AC chemo? We will be contacting the oncologist on Monday (it is the weekend now), but I am worried. If the ibc has spread to her other breast, does this mean it has metastasized and would now be at Stage IV?

Any info. would be appreciated. Thanks. 

Betsk

Thanks so much for your response, Bonnie. It is appreciated. My mother still has the rash on her second breast and had her third chemo treatment yesterday. She had this chemo treatment at a smaller cancer centre (goes there every second time) and the oncologist there didn't seem too alarmed by it and commented she couldn't feel a lump at all. She told my Mom that her regular oncologist at the larger centre would look at it further at the next chemo appointment in three weeks. I trust they know what they are doing, but I have to admit that I do worry about it. I never did ask yesterday if this would mean the cancer is classified as Stage IV. I didn't want to ask this in front of my Mom and make her worry more if it was. I'm thinking, though, that what you said re Stage IV is right. All the best to you and God bless.

lorieg

Betsk,

 Hopefully the rash is nothing, but bilateral breast cancer is not as uncommon as you would think.  If she does have bilateral breast cancer it would not mean she was stage IV and probably would not change her prognosis.  I am actually *hoping* for bilateral breast cancer as crazy as that sounds.  My signature explains it.  Best of luck to you and and your mom.  Hugs.

Betsk

lorieg – Thanks for the info. I really hope you have bilateral breast cancer instead of mets (you're right – it sounds crazy to hope that someone has bilateral breast cancer). HUGS to you!

Gg08 – I agree that it's good her oncologists are not alarmed. I will feel better, though, after her next chemo appointment in a week and a half when she gets to see and talk to her main oncologist. She is tolerating the chemo, but definitely has a mixture of days. She feels very weak most of the time and lately has been non-stop burping. Is the burping/rifting a common side effect? 

Betsk

Thanks again for the response, Bonnie. I will suggest this to her. I'll also see what the oncologist says at her next appointment.