Tumor Has Spread Into The Skin

Medvetz63

I sent my wife's BC surgeon a text message last night asking her if she had a rough idea as to what stage my wife's recurrence might be. This morning she responded with the following that I have copied and pasted below:





" The size is hard to determine but the tumor has spread into the skin. This looks like a stage III recurrence, but we will know better after imaging is complete."



I am really worried now. How could it have spread into the skin when my wife was going in for all her scheduled check-ups?

Some websites say that a spread to the skin is metastasis, while others say it's only metastasis if it's in skin that's far from the breast.



Some sites say that most recurrences are local and rarely involve metastasis while other sites say that most recurrences are NOT local and DO involve distant metastasis.



This is quickly becoming a nightmare.

Medvetz63

I meant to put this on the original thread about recurrence (which is where I moved it to) but was so out of it from stress that I started a new thread without meaning to.