Hip Pain Breast Cancer. 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. They have done tow biopsies on it and both have come out inconclusive.
The doc told me not to worry about it would will just leave it and watch it grow. The most common symptom of cancer in the hip is pain which can be severe enough to disrupt sleep. Sometimes swelling or a mass may be felt in the hip.
Many conditions can cause hip pain and cancer is one of them.
My doc says well it can t be cancer cause that is rare. Patients with bone cancer often describe the pain as achy and dull according to reports from the university of connecticut health center 2. Back pain can be a symptom of metastatic breast cancer because when this disease spreads it often goes to bone benjamin smith m d an associate professor of radiation oncology at md anderson. Breast kidney lung prostate and thyroid cancers metastasize more frequently to bones than do other cancers.
