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The best cancer treatment: having a healthy body

As long as there is no bullet proof cure for cancer, it all boils down to Darwin's survival of the fittest. The best way to get ahead of cancer is:
- making sure you don't get cancer
- making sure your body has all it can get to kill cancer cells
Cancer prevention boils down to eating and living healthy, keeping a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Easier said than done in a world were your job stresses you out, car smoke pollutes your air, food is filled with residu's and water is polluted.

But if your life is dear to you, then you cannot use all the above as an excuse. Father had been smoking, had worked with asbestos and didn't eat much vegetables nor fruit. Father died with metastatic liver cancer in a way I wouldn't even wish my worst enemy.

When your life is dear to you, start doing all the things that our metastatic liver cancer survivors are doing:

1. Believe there is a cure : believe it like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

2. Use conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy.

3. Use alternative cancer treatments to boost your immune system and overall health:
- the healthier you are: the better you can fight of diseases and
- the healthier you are: the better chemotherapy could work for you
4. Follow an holistic health approach: having a healthy spirit in a healthy body:
- focus on less stress,
- more relaxation,
- more exercise (Jim's son is swimming twice a week for both exercise and relaxation),
- a healthy diet based on organic products
- make sure you have a hobby to pass your time doing something you love
5. Make sure you have money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above.

6. Surround yourself with as many loving and helpful creatures you can find: according to pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze:

"you gotta have a dog"
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Metastatic or Secondary Liver Cancer

Metastatic liver cancer is a cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body.

Weight loss, hard liver, bigger abdomen and a poor appetite may be the first symptoms, secondary liver cancer is mostly diagnosed very soon after a primary cancer is diagnosed.
Doctors base the diagnosis on results of blood tests and usually biopsy.
Chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy may help relieve symptoms but do not cure the cancer.
Secondary liver cancer survivors are few, you can read their ongoing cancer stories as well as terminal cancer care in our secondary liver cancer support.

Why is secondary liver cancer common?

Because the liver filters most of the blood from the rest of the body, cancer cells that break away from the primary cancer come into the bloodstream and reach the liver.

An enlarged liver due to a metastatic cancer – a cancer that moved from one place to another – is mostly the first indication that a person has cancer.

Symptoms

More often than not, there are no clear symptoms. Early detection is impossible, because of the intrinsic nature of a secondary cancer: being a cancer that developed already a long time in its primary location before spreading to the liver. Most commonly the primary cancer occurs in the colon, lungs, breasts, lungs, stomach or pancreas.

Most often people notice that something is wrong when the liver is enlarged and hard and secondary symptoms like weight loss and less appetite occur.

Only in a very advanced stage the cancer patient develops jaundice – a yellowish discoloration of the skin and the whites of the eyes -. My father died of this cancer without having jaundice although his liver was extremely enlarged and his liver functions were extremely poor leading to the following end stages of metastatic liver cancer:

swollen feet – called ascites – which becomes life threatening
when the swelling reaches higher than the patient’s legs
liver encephalopathy: mental confusion, anxiety, drowsiness and dizziness due to toxins accumulating in the brain because the liver is too damaged to remove them from the blood.

Metastatic liver cancer diagnosis

As mentioned above: it is impossible to diagnose a secondary liver cancer in its early stages, because a secondary cancer has been around already a long time as a primary cancer somewhere else in the body.

That explains why liver function blood tests, ultrasonography, computed tomography scans (CT scan), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI scan) of the liver may detect a tumor or cancer, but a liver biopsy is needed to distinguish the findings from cirrhosis or other liver abnormalities:

a liver biopsy removes a sample of liver tissue with a needle for examination under a microscope
alternatively, doctors could insert a flexible viewing tube – laparoscope – through a tiny incision in the abdomen to better identify and obtain cancerous tissue

Metastatic Liver Cancer Treatment

Most doctors, cancer websites and universities haven’t come across any secondary liver cancer survivor, because they are few. Unfortunately this results in the doctors believing that there is no cure for the cancer and the patient will be treated to “improve quality of life”, knowing that the patient will die.

If you do believe there is a cure, you have one of all ingredients to survive secondary liver cancer. Just like Jim’s son and are other few survivors tell you: the first step to any successful cancer treatment, be it traditional or alternative cancer treatments (normally both) is believing in your victory over cancer.

Cancer treatment depends on how far the cancer has spread and what the primary cancer is. If you want to treat cancer in order to survive, you have to do everything right, as we point out in the sidebar. However, conventional doctors will only treat the symptoms to reduce the cancer growth in the liver – a treatment that will only prologue the life of the cancer patient with an extra few weeks:

chemotherapy drugs could be used to temporarily shrink the primary and secondary cancers and prolong life, but they will not cure the cancer. Chemotherapy drugs may be injected into the liver’s main artery (the hepatic artery), providing a high concentration of the drugs directly to the cancer cells in the liver. Very high tech but nonetheless no cure.
radiation therapy could reduce severe pain when without the radiation the liver is growing. Side effects of radiation therapy are plenty and again it’s no cure for the secondary liver cancer as it will return from its original location..
liver surgery is only an option after successfully treatment of the primary cancer and if only a limited amount of cancers are found in the liver.

Since your doctors don’t have any proven medical treatment to cure cancer, you will have to prepare and organize as much care and care takers as possible in order to make a person with a failing liver as comfortable as possible in
the last stages of his or her life.

Metastatic Liver Cancer support

Every many months our site adds another secondary liver cancer survivor story. However every few weeks, another metastatic liver cancer patient dies.

Our site brings together both survivors as family members and care takers of loved ones that struggle with metastatic liver cancer. By sharing our cancer stories:

you can get in touch with others who went through the same cancer journey as you are going through now
you can get inspired how to do everything right to prevent and battle cancer, just like or too few cancer survivors are doing.

Help yourself or help others and participate:

Read our 5 Most Popular Metastatic Liver Cancer Posts

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