My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. She underwent a radical masectomy of her left breast along with a lymph nodal dissection. After the dissection, it was found that her lymph nodes were matted with cancerous tumors.

She then underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. We were told that her bone scans, abdominal, chest and head scans all came back negative.

About 4 weeks ago after completion of her radiation therapy, blood work that was drawn indicated a problem in her liver (i believe it was abnormal enzyme activity). We were told by her oncologist that they weren't sure what this was from and wanted to take another look at the blood work in 4 weeks.

Well, my wife is now in intensive care in critical condition, and at first the doctors didn't know what was happening. She had a high fever, and unfortunately, they havent been able to take a successful cat scan. This is due to the fact that she is in the middle of a manic depressive (bipolar episode) and won't sit still for the cat scans.

I am now being told by doctors that they have found lesions on her liver.
Is it possible that her breast cancer could have spread to her liver without going to the bones or lungs?

I am frantically trying to understand what is happening here and hope that someone can help me. My wife is only 39, and we have two young children.

Please help me if you have heard of this before, and if there are any websites I can visit to try to understand what is going on, and what I need to do to prepare for the situation that is unfolding in front of me.