metastatic breast cancer?

[azure]

Hello, I posted a question last week about the possibility of a high grade DCIS with questionable microinvasion to spread to the liver. I found an abdominal mass a few months ago after having DCIS (right breast) last year. I just received the ultrasound report.  It shows a heterogeneous mass (3.5x3.8cm) in the right liver with a halo of edema surrounding it. The radiologist thinks that it is most likely consistent with metastasis from previous breast cancer and recommends a triple phase CT scan.  

I have pain around that area constantly and I wonder what over-the-counter painkiller will be the best in this kind of situation (one that is safer on the stomach and liver).  

Is it true that metastatic breast cancer has no cure? What is the average survival rate?

TIA.

[velvetstorm]

I was just diagnosed w/ metastases in skull, femur, hip, spine, & sternum, maybe more. I would like 2 know what my chances are, but I beat it once & depending on what God, myself & the medical community have planned I'll do it again. I get told it's okay 2 lose it,emotionally, but why? People react by how I react.Either it's my time 2 go or it's my time 2 hang around & **** a few more people off - & I'm still here. I know in the 10 years since my left breast mastectomy & in 2 lymph nodes, I have helped so many. I sometimes think that's why I got it. My Papa was diagnosed a few months after me. My Mama was bed ridden w/ strokes. They died 23 days apart 6 months after my mastectomy. How we dealt w/ what we were going through made such a difference in a very trying situation.

[CCF-RN,MSN-JS]

Dear azure, Further evaluation of this mass is indicated (ct scan, biopsy) before being able to definitely say what it is.  Discuss with your physician your pain, they would be the best to advise you on medication to take (over-the-counter or prescription) knowing your specific case and what is happening with you.  

There are treatments for breast cancer that has metastasized, and people can live a number of years with this diagnosis.