Breast cancer that has spread to liver

Kathi,

Sorry about your mom.  Gemzar put my liver in remission and is very easy.  So maybe that is an option.

My liver was full of tumors 11 years ago, and the biggest tumor was the size of a softball.

Gemzar put my liver in remission and it has remained so.

Denny, I am going through evaluation for liver mets. How did you know you have it? Did you have surgery also? Yours is the most positive outcome I have heard of.

mommalou, my primary symptom is a swollen and sore liver lower right rib area sourness. It is very sore to the touch. 

denny, you have your mastectomies before you found out you have liver mets? Because when when i was dxd with reoccurrence in the liver , i asked my onc what if it was the good breast ? He told me it would not matter anymore it has moved to the liver , so it is useless to operate weaken your body. He said at this stage it does not matter if the primary tumor is elsewhere since it already in the body...

I'm triple neg and had mets to the liver.  I was put on Xeloda and after a year the tumor is "almost imperceptible" (from the path report.

So hopefully it will also turn your mother around!  Good luck.

I am just seeing this thread and wanted to offer some encouragement. I was also diagnosed with liver mets and am currently on carbo/gemzar which has had a dramatic effect. I never had a mastectomy and my onc. did want to treat the liver mets first. She said that studies are conflicting on if it would matter if I had a mastectomy or not. I have been having pain in my breast and an increase in the number of satellite masses even though the size of the primary tumor has decreased. The size of the liver tumors , I now only have 2 of them, have decreased so much that they want to try and surgically remove them so they are going to go ahead and do a mastectomy at the same time. I think they are doing this because of the pain that I am having in my breast and it will get rid of all of the cancer that I currently have, hopefully. I'll still be on carbo/gemzar for a period after the surgery until scans are clear and she feels comfortable that they have removed all of it. So hopefully I will be able to report in a short while that you can be NED with liver mets and triple negative!

Hi, 

I'm new to writing but not to the discussion boards. I was diagnosed with triple negative, stage 2, no node involvement in February 2012 at the age of 43. I did neo adjuvant chemo of Taxol and AC and had a complete pathological response. I then opted for double mastectomy as my mother had breast cancer at my age too. I then did radiation. I have been feeling great and feeling optimistic. I had my 6 month checkup with my oncologist this morning and he wants to do an ultrasound on my liver as he feels it being slightly enlarged. I'm freaking out right now!!!! Has anyone experienced enlarged liver and if so, what were some of the outcomes??

Radiant sorry you are here, and i hope it is just an enlarged liver. However, i have to tell you that after my first neo adjuvant therapy my liver was seen enlarged all the time even on scan it showed nothing but fatty changes and enlargment.m it wasn't until this year that the spread to the liver showed. What  imean an enlarged liver does not necessarely mean cancer and an ultrasound won't show if there is anything because i did one six month before my reoccurence i had a full ultrasound on my abdominals nothing showed. Sonif your doctor suspect something , o believe he should do a scan with contrast. Do not be afraid it could just be what it is an enlarged liver, people woth fatty livers have enlarged liver all the time although some will develop later in life liver cancer a lot of others won't. Stay well , and i hope it is nothing.