Liver mets

Two places breast cancer can sometimes spread are the liver and the lungs. Learn about different ways to treat and manage liver and lung mets, and find out how these cancers tend to grow and change during treatment. Gain strategies for managing side effects and monitoring your treatment goals over time.

[peterjohnston]

What isn't being said here is that the liver will continue to work until it is overwhelmed by the mets. Then is starts to shut down, rapidly. Tiny red-spots on the skin. Itchy skin. Can't keep anything down. Fluid build-up in thoracic cavity; dramatic weight loss. Cognitive function becomes impaired, then stops. Death follows rapidly after that.

I'm sorry to be a buzz-kill, but any cancer that metastasizes leads to death, at some point. A broad spectrum of variables determines when, and the variables can be treated. But cancer is faster at finding a work around. It doesn't need a double-blind study to be approved.

My wife Elizabeth fought MBC for nine and a half years. The last year, she began to decline, but didn't drop off a cliff until about two months before she passed.

I read over her mammogram reports. In 2011 (her third scan) the radiologist suggested a biopsy would provide a definitive answer. My wife didn't get a biopsy until her 2013 mammogram showed a mass that was unusual. She had a biopsy in the fall of 2013. Basically, after two rounds of surgery and a forensic exam, she was confirmed to have metastatic breast cancer.

So, ANY unusual signs = biopsy. Don't wait. Don't deny. Be courageous - have the biopsy. Your chances are way better the earlier you catch the cancer before it spreads. Afterwards, it's just a matter of time.

[Lucyspell]

If there is no biopsy done, can a scan be definitive of liver mets? Could it be showing benign tumors?

[safarahman]

Is there any chance can have benign nodule at liver of breast cancer patient?