This is my first post, I was diagnosed stage 4 2019 age 39, breast cancer, spread to my lungs and liver, my liver tumour was the worst, roughly 8cm by 6cm, both lungs had 1 tumour in each measuring 2cm roughly, all my treatment has went well and been stable since I stopped chemo, yesterday I got my 3 monthly scan results and my oncologist said my lungs look clear, shes always said they looked like scarring on the lungs, my liver is now still stable at 2.8cm, my question is does this mean my tumours are completely gone in my lungs? I didn't think that could happen hence why they don't operate, I wish I had asked more questions now, thank you,
Only a pathology report can tell what the lungs findings were. I can show you someone who was told they had mets on the lungs only for a surgeon to go into the lungs to grab it and pathology then say, "not cancer." So your oncologist could be right about it. The other possibility is that they were indeed tumours and have responded to treatment very well. The main thing is that your lungs appear clear, so there is a very good chance that whatever it was is now gone. With all such tumours/finding there is the possibility of microscopic findings that are not visible in scans, which is one reason they opt many time to give systemic treatment after surgery, but from what you are saying it seems the treatment really dealt with it.
Your liver tumour seems to have responded brilliantly too, to go from 8x6 to 2.8 is excellent progress. With the tumours having responded so well to systemic treatment, is surgery now an option?
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