Suspicious bone Spots/Lesions on CT scan

Elisha82

Hi ladies,
I hope everyone is doing good, all things considered anyways...

I have a question I'd like to put out there. I recently finished chemo. Afterwards, my oncologist ordered a CT scan and bone scan to check things out. The bone scan was clear but the CT scan showed suspicious spots on my right hip and spine areas. She said they were tiny, 1mm spots, lots of them. The spots are too small to biopsy or show up on any other type scans at this point (per the dr anyways). She said sometimes chemo can cause bone marrow changes and that may be what is showing up on the CT.... said it can happen but it's not common. Or the other option is stage 4 mets to my bones. (please dear lord don't let this be the case!!!!).

My oncologist said bone scans usually show bone cancer before CT scans, and my radiation oncologist told me it would be very unlikely I'd have bone mets already, especially after just finishing chemo on April 3rd. My scans were April 25th. The plan is to wait 2 months and do new scans (well, a month from now at this point) and if the spots have grown it's most likely cancer. I guess if they have grown, we'll be able to biopsy them or do an MRI?

Does anyone know anything about all this?About how bone cancer shows up? Anyone had spots on CT scan turn out to be nothing? Anyone had bone mets show up on CT before bone scan?

I seriously had a week of complete freaking out, and I mean emotional-break-down type crying every day for a while. I am better now, and trying to stay positive and just enjoy each day as it comes, but I just wanted to put this out there and see what everyone thinks.

Thank ya!