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If you have stomach cancer

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ThatBeetroot · 03/05/2007 19:50

first found a tumour in yor overy, then stomach cancer and had lods of chemo. now found a fracture in your sacrum - does that indicate cancer in the bone?

Any ideas of teh prognosis

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ZZMum · 03/05/2007 21:50

please please please ask a professional....this is not for mums to answer... I hope you get the answer you need

Tamum · 03/05/2007 21:54

It could do (I'm assuming there was no obvious injury that caused it?). I'm really sorry.

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ThatBeetroot · 04/05/2007 07:05

zzmum - please give me some credit.

thanks tamum - it is as we thought.

Getting to see the right doctor is a nightmare let alone actually getting information. it seems they just up the drugs!

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ThatBeetroot · 04/05/2007 07:06

and no idea of the long term prognosis as mil won't ask and nor will dh.

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WideWebWitch · 04/05/2007 07:10

zzmum, erm, I wouldn't assume everyone on mumsnet is 'just' a mum: tamum for example is a geneticist and there are lots of other clever professionals on mumsnet. Beetroot wouldn't only ask here but 'this is not for mums to answer' just doesn't acknowledge the variety of expertise on mn!

beetroot, sorry to hear this (it's your mil is it?), how sad.

tissy · 04/05/2007 07:11

Beetroot, it is certainly possible that the cancer has spread to the bone, but not inevitable. Osteoporosis can be caused by extreme illness, and some of the drugs they use to treat cancer, so the fracture could be a secondary phenomenon, without being a secondary tumour, IYSWIM.

The person concerned needs to get back to the oncologist quickly, who will order scans if it is not clear what the cause of the fracture is.

Treatment depends on the cause- could be further chemo, occasionally radiotherapy, rarely surgery.

HTH

tissy · 04/05/2007 07:13

As to prognosis, if this is the cancer causing a fracture, then not good...I couldn't obviously be more specific than that, sorry

NadineBaggott · 04/05/2007 07:14

I think zzmum was just concerned for Beety

Blandmum · 04/05/2007 07:18

agree with tissy and tamum, this is an area where there can be dufferent reasons for the fracture, and wirthout more information it is impossible to come up with a conclusive answer.

Your MIL needs to see someone about this. Is she ready to do this, or do youthink she is too scared that they will give her bad news?

Is she seeing a macmillan nurse? Dh's has moved heaven and earth for dh.

Sorry that you are worried and upset about this. In many ways, not knowing is far more scary than actually getting the worst news

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ThatBeetroot · 04/05/2007 08:39

She is in hospital, has been for a week or so - went in with a bug, has had an mri scan and been told she has a fractured sternum. Now they are doing more scans. Her oncologist is in London and she is in Norfolk and they don't at present, seem to be talking to each other.

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tissy · 04/05/2007 09:17

they probably are talking, beetroot, but it can be difficult at a distance to get information between 2 hospitals transferred. MRI should show whether the fracture has any tumour associated with it- are they doing an isotope bone scan as well?

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ThatBeetroot · 04/05/2007 09:40

not sure Tissy - I will ask dh.

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