What can symptoms can we expect during my mother-in-law's hormone therapy for breast cancer?
It is challenging to predict future symptoms in many cancers including breast cancer. The symptoms depend on where the cancer spreads to and how rapidly it grows in different places; shortness of breath if in the lungs, swelling in the abdomen and legs if in the liver etc. breath if in the lungs, swelling in the abdomen and legs if in the liver etc.
Given that your mother-in-law has no disease in her internal organs, the most likely symptom continues to be pain at the sites of the cancer. There could be other fractures, including in the bones of the spine. Radiation can often help in specific places. Steroids can help with the pain but could worsen her diabetes.
It is possible that the cancer could press on the nerves of the spinal cord and cause pain but also interfere with whatever those nerves control. However it is likely that pain will be the most common symptom unless the cancer spreads to some internal organ.
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