Liver lesion

JennyB100104

Hi everyone. Just wondering what you might think of this. I was diagnosed in March with stage I ILC at 39 y.o., just under a year after I'd had breast surgery (implants and lift). The previous surgery left me very concerned/paranoid about the plastic surgeon reseeding the tumor, which had obviously been there a few years, since it was a slow-growing one & right under my nipple (which was moved during the plastic surgery). 

I've had two lumpectomies (1st with positive margins), 4 rounds of TC, 6.5 weeks of rads, and am now on Tamoxifen. 

Anyway, I had a chest CT last week to follow up on some pneumonitis I had during chemo. Chest came back fine, but they saw a 1 cm hypervascular lesion on my liver--the CT gave no information other than that.

So I went in for an ultrasound today and the tech couldn't find it. She found a .5 cm calcification in the same area (from what I could tell--she wasn't exactly forthcoming with information), but that was all.

So what will happen now? I expect to hear "results" from my oncologist next week, but I have this sick feeling she's going to assume everything is okay & take a "wait-and-see" approach, which is going to stress me out to no end. Limbo just causes me all sorts of anxiety.

Has anyone ever had anything like this happen?

Do you have any advice on how I should pursue finding out exactly what this thing is? What can they do now to get to the bottom of it?

hugs,

Jenny

RebzAmy

Hi Jenny

When I was going through the diagnosis process a CT scan showed up a lesion on my liver and I was going to have a biopsy on it. When the day came, they got me all ready for it and then they decided that it was too small and that they didn't think it was anything to do with the cancer anyway so an ultrasound was carried out instead and they decided it was a haemangioma (collection of blood vessels) which apparently lots of people have. in fact lots of people have all kinds of things which the doctors call lesions and very often they tend not to be related to cancer. Hope the same happens for you and that you are not kept waiting and wondering - that's really horrible - you sort of want/need to know either way

xxxx

JennyB100104

Thanks, RebzAmy. The ultrasound came up inconclusive (they couldn't find the lesion)...so as I sort of expected, I'm in wait-and-see mode. They'll do another CT in 6 months to see if there's any change.

ARGH! It's going to make me crazy!

I'm going to try to put it out of my mind, I guess. Or assume it's a hemangioma (I apparently have one of those on my spine anyway).