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Breast Cancer ? Bone Cancer?My dearest friend of 25 years just recently finished her chemo treatment for breast cancer. She had 8 treatments in total and was told that she?d have to have a mastectomy on her left breast. She recently went for a cat scan which I was told was rutine before she went to have her reconstructive surgery done ? a transflap.

Well, it appeared that during the scan some areas on her hip and spine lit up. It was thought that she had bone cancer but the final pathology on the bone biopsy came back ?inconclusive?. It showed some suspicious cells but no actual cancer.

What are the chances that she has breast cancer that has metastasized to her bones and if it isn?t that what else could it possibly be?

Most of her family are taking the ?inconclusive? result as a positive thing but my intuition is telling me otherwise. Anyone have any experience with this sort of situation?
When she had the cat scan it showed bone lesions that weren?t there on the prior cat scan she had done. Her doctor told her that while she still needed to prove without a doubt that it was cancer she really didn?t think it could have been anything else.

Another point of concern was that when they were testing her in the begining of her breast cancer treatment they had found it had gotten to her lymphnodes but the numbers indicated that it hadn?t gotten any further. I guess it was so many out of so many ? I can?t recall.

-complex
There are things that can make it light up other than cancer. A scan is routine before surgery of this type after cancer. Why was is automatically thought she had bone cancer from only scan results? It would seem her doctors were jumping the gun if they thought that, or was it that the family or your friend had that running through their minds, which would be normal to be afraid of once you have cancer? Inconclusive doesn?t mean that they can?t decide if it?s cancer or not, inconclusive means the cancer Markers for her cancer and bone cancer were NOT positive ? which is a very good thing, just like her family is, rightlfully, taking it as. The biopsy showed this. As far as lighting up a scan, anything from inflamation to scar tissue can light up a scan. Your friend?s doctor knew a scan alone in not trustworthy for diagnosis purposes and did the biopsies to rule out cancer. Intuition is not reliable, especially when it?s not the cancer patient?s intuition.

-oncogenomics
?Breast cancer can also spread to other parts of the body via blood vessels. So it can spread to the lungs, pleura (the lining of the lungs), the liver, the brain and most commonly to the bones.?

from wikipedia but, you?ll find the same information at any other website.

I suspect they?ll monitor her to check for hints of bone metastases. Bone metatases often cause blood chemistry abnormalities like hypercalcemia and other conditions. Follow-up scans may be used to compare against.

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