Confused about my liver scan and biopsy.

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Sierrasue123
Sierrasue123 Member Posts: 14
edited March 2019 in Waiting for Test Results

Hi all,

I have not been here for many years. Had Breast cancer stage 2 in 1996 with lumpectomy, lymph nodes taken out , and radiation.

It then came back in 2005 and I had mastectomy and chemo.

Now, on a recent chest X-ray due to getting over Pneumonia they found a tumor on my liver as part of the liver shows in chest xray .

Had a ct scan of liver and it shows this :

Liver: Multiple hypodense lesions seen scattered diffusely throughout both lobes of the liver. 2 cm

hypodense mass seen in the superior aspect of segment 7 on axial images 19 and 20. 1.8 cm hypodense mass

anterior segment 4A left lobe of liver axial image 18. 1.8 cm hypodense mass posterior aspect segment 6

axial image 52. Remaining lesions vary in size from 7 mm up to 12 mm. Proximally 30 separate metastatic

lesions are seen throughout the liver.

So a few tumors and 30 lesions.

Then it says this :

IMPRESSION:

1. Extensive diffuse hepatic metastasis.

So, I had a biopsy a couple days ago on one of the tumors and it was inconclusive. Did not show any cancer . Just strange cells. The Radiologist told me that they did not think they had gotten good enough samples and I should have another biopsy coming up of one of the other tumors. Here is part of what it says.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION
1. The touch preps show mostly normal hepatocytes, as well as rare clusters of
bland smaller epithelial cells which may be benign biliary epithelium. The
permanent sections show only cores of normal liver and bile ducts. There is no
evidence of primary or metastatic carcinoma.

I don't know what to think. A part of me says that maybe the whole business in my liver is benign and some weird thing . However given my history of breast cancer they still seem to think I have cancer in the liver. Also, I have not been feeling myself lately. Some things just not right. But then if anything is going on in my liver , be it cancer or not well I suppose it could affect how I feel since the liver is important. I am so confused and was thinking if I do have widespread cancer in the liver as it sounds when you look at the part of the cat scan that says I have 30 lesions and 3 or 4 tumors. The other think is that I am really more into integrative care and not getting pumped with chemo again. Now, I am feeling like just forgetting the whole thing for awhile.

Just wondering what some of you think .

I actually talk to my Dr. tomorrow. These current results of the liver biopsy where on my chart to read. I dont know if that is good or not. But I am signed up on My chart with the hospital meaning I can read all my reports and sometimes before I see the Dr.

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