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Metastatic liver cancer facts

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Since I know I have cancer, I have been bombarded with words that I didn’t understand and some words I still don’t understand… So its about time I write down what I know about what I have… Sounds silly, but I can assure you that my mind is really overheated not to say crazy with all these terms thrown at me. Yet I would have preferred a cancer treatment, not a cancer dictionary…

To keep track of all the metastatic cancer facts, I summarize my findings at Metastatic liver cancer facts 

Metastatic

I was blown away by the word "cancer", but what really is my "death
sentence" is the word "metastatic"…

A metastatic cancer is a cancer that has spread from its’ place of origin to another place or any other places in the body. Also called secondary tumor or secondary cancer. With me the doctors are not sure whether my cancer originates from a colon cancer, a prostate cancer, a lung cancer or a gland cancer on my left shoulder… I had a colonoscopy (read: 2 days of diarrhea), gastroscopy, pet-scan, CT scan and liver biopsy (with a needle) and yet the result is the same: we cannot find the primary source of your metastatic liver cancer.

A metastatic cancer can have spread to other places through:

which basically are the 2 transport systems in our entire body, which means that the cancer really can go anywhere…

Metastatic liver cancer prognosis

Ever wanted to put out a fire, but you just don’t know where the fire comes from? Pretty difficult… Same with a metastatic liver cancer: if you cannot find it, you need to assume the primary cancer is "everywhere" so your cancer treatment will go "everywhere" as well. In other words: a very, very strong chemo-therapy.

Metastatic liver cancer prognosis is normally not good. Unless you can find and treat the primary cancer. Cancer treatment means you will probably get a chemotherapy, and if you are young and fit, you can deal with it "easily". Myself I am old and already have difficulties keeping food in just like that, what kind of life do I get when I get a chemotherapy?

All in all my prognosis is not good and adding to that a chemotherapy doesn’t sound like a "healthy" decision either…

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  1. 3DayMom.com » metastatic liver cancer on December 18th, 2006 6:23 pm

    [...] Here’s a new blog I found called Metastatic Liver Cancer. The author got sick a few months ago, and found out she had a tumor causing Metastatic Liver Cancer, which is a cancer that has spread from its’ place of origin to another place or any other places in the body. The blog is heartbreaking, frank, and painful to read at times, but it’s a true and honest portrait of someone living with cancer. [...]

  2. Michele Williams on January 15th, 2009 2:55 am

    My dad’s cancer was originally in the eye… 18 years later it metastatised to the liver ….. one week after diagnoised… he died….For a year his doctor kept telling him he had gout! He came out to visit us, we noticed he was yellow, then later he told us about his urine bring brown and bowels being white… we took him to the hosptal… and after then did biopsy we brought him home with us and he died one week later! One of these days i will share his story…. it was awlfull how the insurance company treated him and what we had to do in order to get him seen in the first place since he was from a different state than where we were….

    Thank you for your very informative site!

    Blessings to you….

  3. Liver Cancer on January 21st, 2009 3:29 pm

    @Michelle

    Thanks for dropping by and looking forward hearing your complete story.

    First time I read about eye cancer spread to the liver, interested to learn more from you as we always learn more reading each others cancer stories.

    One day we will find a treatment for cancer, it’s just a matter of getting all our knowledge together.

  4. sps sawhney on May 3rd, 2009 12:29 pm

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  6. kath-e on June 14th, 2010 9:50 am

    kath-e here again…i have a question…and apprciate all answers…i have been in contact with someone however i dont know their name…this person is extremely knowledgeable and very willing to share their stories and info on this liver mets…

    Q-my primary is non hodgkins lymphoma…and now its spread to my liver in some bad locations…some lesions are along the falciform ligament which makes a bad situation worse…im at stage 4 b and was in 2004 when diagnosed…now im rediagnosed with this mets from a liver biopsy done 3/31/10…im trying to figure out if you have to treat the primary first and the primary is NHL…and that is what is in the liver malignant NHL…is that why its untreatable bec its already been treated and the chemo didnt take…hmmm…im baffled on this one…

    now i just realize my prognosis of 3-6 months..my birthday is exactly 6 months from the diagnosed date of 4/2/10…

    any info regarding nhl with liver metastasis anyone has to share would be greatly appreciated…

    with all the stories ive read and sites ive been on ..it always seems to be from one location to a completely differnet location…such as protrate to liver…or breast to liver….or lung to liver etc…

    thanks very much!!

  7. Secondary Liver Cancer on June 14th, 2010 12:21 pm

    Hi Kath-e,

    Since this is a medical question, the persons best qualified to answer you are your GP and oncologist.

    I have the same understanding like you: you need to ‘get rid of the primary cancer’ because in secondary liver cancer: the cancer in your liver is the primary that ‘just moved’ from his prime location to the liver.

    Father had secondary liver cancer with unknown primary, so the oncologist had ‘no indication’ which specific chemo to give (for which specific primary) and in order to ‘try to make sure to kill all possible primary cancers’, the high dose of chemo needed, would have most likely killed father.

    Hope that helps. Please do ask your doctors.

    Hugs and God bless!

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