Hepatic Shenanigans

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PetRescue
PetRescue Member Posts: 15
edited August 2018 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned

At a check-up today, my doctor (1 of the 3 who did my reconstruction surgeries) told me he scheduled me for an MRI on Friday because he saw a spot on my liver on a CT scan I had done a couple months ago when Tamoxifen was wrecking it’s physical and mental torture on me. What the hell is this spot? He said he’s not concerned; of course he’s going to say that - he doesn’t want a very dramatic scene in his office. lol. What else could it be but cancer? Do spots just hang out on the liver of a breast cancer survivor? I just finished chemo a year ago, dammit. Has anyone had this issue, “a spot on the liver”? thank you in advance.

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited August 2018

    Spots or lesions on organs can be lots of things. Sometimes, they're even just an imaging artifact. Keep breathing and let us know how your MRI goes. Wishing you the best.

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  • Lula73
    Lula73 Member Posts: 1,824
    edited August 2018

    yep, they can be many totally benign things like an hemangioma or a fatty spot (not to be confused with fatty liver). I’m lucky enough to have 1 of each! Hoping yours is just a fatty spot too!

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited August 2018

    Not liver, but my twin sister, ex smoker, had an incidental finding of 3 lesions on her lungs....just the way her body is...no cancer.


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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited August 2018

    Yes, and it was just a hemangioma, nothing burger.

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  • Nurseinboots
    Nurseinboots Member Posts: 19
    edited August 2018

    Going through this right now.  Got an abdominal ultrasound with my PCP out of an abundance of caution because I'd been having some minor GI distress.  Had cysts on my initial staging and restaging last year, but this looks solid per the brief phone call with the onco team today.  Not super stoked about it but I've been through this workup hell before.  The not knowing and not having a plan was the hardest part of my initial dx, definitely worse than any treatment I underwent.  

    Hang in there, petrescue.    

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  • KWilli
    KWilli Member Posts: 114
    edited August 2018

    I am also scheduled for an MRI for my liver for a spot they've seen on CT. I have just been diagnosed with IDC, ER-/PR-/HER2- (Triple Negative), 1st chemo is on the 10th. According to the Oncologist; it's not something she's concerned about, but wants to rule it out for sure. I totally get your worry; although I'm choosing to believe that there really is "nothing to be concerned about". I hope that this is the case for both of us!

    xo


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  • PetRescue
    PetRescue Member Posts: 15
    edited August 2018

    it turned out to be a benign cyst on my liver and kidney. yikes. i think the mri was worse than any of the chemos. gee

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited August 2018

    Yes!

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited August 2018

    Great news!

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