Oligometastatic Mets

I am oligo, with a solitary brain met, but HER2-. My treatments are also listed in below.

Dear vennila,

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I am oligo with mets to my liver. SBRT April 2017 and “no evidence of metastatic disease” 9 months out. So grateful

I am now one year out from stage 4. Oligometastatic. Now NEAD. Due another scan anytime.

One met to mediastinum LN. Currently on maintenance HP and Letrozole.

Have read some hopeful studies on better long term prognosis for Oligometastatic patients.

Liz

I’m triple positive and have recently been told that I’m oligometastatic and could possibly be an exceptional responder due to being HER2 +ve, although it is too early to say this yet. I’ve had no evidence of mets (had 1 liver, 2 bone) since August 2016. I have been on Herceptin and Perjeta since Oct 2015. At one stage I was told it was also in my lungs from diagnosis, but they later decided I just have 3 harmless nodules.

I had a local recurrence in my breast last August and commenced on tamoxifen also, but when the tumour grew after 3 months I eventually agreed to a mastectomy. I only did this because I was told that if I could get local control I would still be Oligometastatic. I originally had Inflammatory Breast Cancer but the pathology came back mixed tumour surrounded by large amount of DCIS, with clean margins and no evidence of IBC. My surgeon had been insistent it was still IBC, and took extra fat from under my skin leaving me with a concave area. I refused full axillary clearance and had only 3 lymph nodes removed with only one positive, being completely replaced with cancer cells extending around the node. My case was discussed on Friday at the multidisciplinary meeting and it was agreed that radiotherapy to my chest wall, axillary and supraclavicular nodes was appropriate. My Radiation Oncologist rang me and said he is “giving me the benefit of the doubt”, and treating me as if I had never had mets! I am so thrilled that the meeting agreed with this, especially since my previous Oncologist dismissed the existence of Oligometastases when I asked her. So I am continuing on Tamoxifen and H&P.

I have hope again, and I think that is so important when living with this disease 😊

Yes Meme I did, I assumed they weren't working and that was why I had a local recurrence, but my Onc assured me they were keeping the mets at bay. I will be staying on them until I get new mets. I will then go on to TDM1 (Kadcyla)

I had a solitary liver met that measured 4.6 cm from the get go and that was in October 2011. I have officially been NEAD since August 2012. I am now just on Herceptin as the Perjeta was causing some serious diarrhea. Hope this helps. Hang in there.