BC to liver

I am in the same boat. An Oct CT scan showed 2 spots on the liver--10mm and 17mm. In Feb I was dx with bc and the liver MRI showed only one spot on the liver but the 10mm spot had increased to 14mm. On Tuesday I had a breast MRI which showed the 14mm spot had grown to 20 mm. MY onc told me not to freak out as a breast MRI was not good for looking at the liver. On Monday, I will have a liver MRI. If it has really grown in size from 14 to 20mm, I will have a biopsy. If it  has stayed the same, my onc will ignore it. Rational being that since I am in active treatment and am going through chemo. I am halfway done through chemo and my breast cancer shows remission. Her rational is that if the liver spot is cancer it would have shown a change also. If it has not changed, then it is something else.

In your case, I think 1mm is within the margin of error and it appears stable to me. Have you had a PET scan or a MRI? What does your onc recommend as next step? Your next step may be different as you are not in active treatment like me. However, most of us have harmless spots on the liver and most of the time they are mean nothing. That is what I tell myself every minute. Wish you luck.

My once told me that bc usually travels to liver first, freaked me out. I'm so sorry you all have this and wish you the best.  Apparently my surgeon said three and under can safely be removed, and that the liver repairs itself really well so I always keep that in mind.

My mom has liver mets, and her onc said that generally lesions that remain the same and unchanged tend to be hermangiomas.  Whereas, lesions that grow are highly suspitious of mets.  PET/CT is best for looking at them, as it will pick up any associated metabolic activity in malignant tumors.  Maybe that might be something to ask the doc for one of these scans, my mom gets them every 3 months.

They just found three spots on my liver this week. I go for a PET scan next Tuesday to see if they light up. I had a CAT scan this week, as I have been having ongoing pain on my left side. The cat scan shows nothing on the left side, but these three spots showed up, so here I go. I hope they are nothing. We'll see.



Diag: 4/2007, 1.7 cm IDC, 1/9 node, stage 2, grade 3, ER/PR +, her2 -, four rounds AC, four rounds Taxol, Arimidex.

gracie,

   did you have lesions prior to finding these 3 new spots?
 

when will you get your results gracie? another ?- have you recently lost weight or have been nauseuos?

yes gracie i am ned .my onco wants to do another cat scan in the near future but i have zero symptoms. which is great adn elads me to believe that they r just hemo cyst...if it were liver cancer we would feel much sicker ,naseus,losing weight etc. so even though i am not the doc i think u r good! keep me posted!