Hip And Knee Pain After Breast Cancer

Following a masectomy and 6 rounds of chemo taxotere and cytoxan followed by neulasta injections i am left with incredible bone pain.

Hip and knee pain after breast cancer. Usually the long bones in the arms and legs hurt first. For example joint pain can occur as a result of cancer treatment. Typically bone pain is. The most common symptom of hip bone cancer is pain which is usually localized to the site of the tumor.

For more than half of women who develop stage iv breast cancer the bones are the first site of metastasis. Is felt at and around the site of the metastasis. Planning long rv trip soon. The worst pain is in my hip although i ve been told it s actually the pelvic bone.

A few weeks later hip pain may develop. While breast cancer can metastasize to any bone in the body it most commonly spreads to the spine pelvis ribs and long bones of the arms and legs humerus and femur. The growing use of aromatase inhibitors ais in breast cancer treatment for postmenopausal women has led to an increased incidence of joint pain mostly in the hands and feet but it can also affect the knees hips and other joints. In mid june my left hip started hurting and steadily got worse over the next few weeks to the point that walking and bending over were almost impossible.

Pain caused by metastatic bone cancer. Breast cancer hip pain. The pain may worsen with activity or may be unaffected by activity. Hip and lower back pain i stared chemotherapy taxotere carboplatin and herceptin on april 1 of this year for breast cancer and finished the scheduled 6 cycles two weeks ago july 30.

Patients with bone cancer often describe the pain as achy and dull according to reports from the university of connecticut health center 2. This is a particular concern for postmenopausal women with breast cancer who take hormone therapy drugs called aromatase inhibitors. Need prognosis for woman 75 stage 4 breast cancer mets to hip knee bone. I completed radiation in december and started tamoxifen.

After three opinions that nothing was going on i finally insisted on a full body bone scan and can put up with the diagnosis of arthritis. I am a breast cancer survivor. A sudden noticeable new pain is the most common symptom of cancer that has spread to the bone. Although breast cancer can spread to any bone the most common sites are the ribs spine pelvis and long bones in the arms and legs.

When 200 of these patients were surveyed 47 percent reported joint pain and of those 67 percent ranked it as moderate to severe. I was also told that bone mets from breast cancer very rarely if at all will start in the extremities more than likely would start at rib cage or clavicles.