Nov 22 2006
Metastatic liver cancer facts : secondary liver cancer
How to read this picture? Suppose I am standing up, my back facing you and you cut me in half, then look from above: then you see me like in the above picture. Have a better understanding of the picture at : Where is your liver
Secondary liver cancer
Like said already in Metastatic liver cancer facts : a secondary cancer is a cancer that came from 1 place and went to the other place. In this case it went to my liver. See all those dark gray circles at the left top of my liver? These are liver tumors. According to the doctors: if we would have seen only 1 round dark gray circle, then it
would have been a primary liver cancer. But now since there are a few, you can be more or less sure the cancer originates from somewhere else.
Where is the primary cancer?
According to the doctor who did my colonoscopy, the primary cancer most likely comes from the colon, yet his camera got stuck in my intestine and he doesn’t want to poke harder in order not to destroy my intestine.
So this doctor says: colon cancer treatment: take Xeloda.
Then I go see the oncologist and he says: I am not sure that the primary cancer is in your colon, so giving you Xeloda would more be "an experiment" or wild goose chase than "a cancer treatment." This was a brutal reality for me as that meant: TRY heavy chemotherapy in order to TRY to kill everything which could include me as well… If I was 100 % sure the chemotherapy would work, yes I would take it. But TRY….
Prognosis for secondary liver cancer
In my case not good, as they cannot find the primary cancer. You cannot cure what you cannot find… The last thing I heard was about a virtual colonoscopy, but all is silent there…
Secondary liver cancer treatment
- remove the bad part: is not an option if you don’t know where the primary cancer comes from (as it will keep on making the liver sick again)
- get a new liver: is not an option, see above
- chemotherapy (CF5 something): again the problem: as long as you cannot find the primary cancer, it can help you, yet not cure you, as you are not treating the primary cancer
- Radio Frequency Ablation: kind of cooking the liver tumors in my liver bso they are gone. Again same problem with primary cancer.
- Freezing would also exist but I don’t know
- Alcohol treatment would also exist
- Some medicine would act as a natural antibody against cancer, yet it is very bad for the liver… and my liver is already not in a good shape
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