Bone scan booked to check for primary bone cancer after b/c

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miss_sunshine
miss_sunshine Member Posts: 48
edited May 2016 in Bone Health and Bone Loss

Hi,

I was diagnosed in 2009 with invasive stage 2a breast cancer which was ER+ HER2+. I had a lumpectomy, chemo, radiation, Herceptin and also Tamoxifen. In 2014, I had a local recurrence of DCIS. I had another lumpectomy followed by a mastectomy. No further treatments other than discontinuing the Tamoxifen and starting on Letrozole.

Last Thursday I was at my family doctor's for a physical and told my doctor about a lump on my skull at the back of my head. She sent me for an x-ray. The results were questionable. I am now booked for a bone scan to check for primary bone cancer, not mets. How can this be happening? What are the chances that I'd get a second type of cancer? Lightning can strike the same person twice even multiple times but come on wtf?!

I am trying hard to believe that my doctor is just being overly cautious but I am on the inside freaking out. I am not sure how much more I can handle.

Cristina

a.k.a. miss_sunshine (feeling kind like a storm cloud is taking away my sunshine)

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  • miss_sunshine
    miss_sunshine Member Posts: 48
    edited May 2016

    Not sure if this was the right forum to post in.

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  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
    edited May 2016

    Cristina, it's very difficult to tell anything from an x-ray, and it does sound like your family doctor is simply being overly cautious, as are all docs when we have a hx of bc. But I am curious, what makes her think it might be a totally new cancer? Have you had any blood work that would cause concern?

    I'm so sorry you're going through this scare, but please let us know when your bone scan is scheduled and what you find out. (((Hugs))) Deanna

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  • miss_sunshine
    miss_sunshine Member Posts: 48
    edited May 2016

    Deanna, she had reviewed with me the results of bone scans, CT scans and MRIs that I had in the past which all looked normal. I am not sure why she thinks it might be a primary cancer -- I had started to cry when she said that so I could barely think straight to ask her. I have to pick up a requisition for bloodwork today. The bone scan is tomorrow.

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