Aug 22 2007
Stage 4 liver cancer
Some people have been criticizing me that although I think I am an expert on liver cancer, yet they never heard me talking about the well known stage 4 liver cancer…
First and foremost: I am not an expert. My father had metastatic liver cancer, so he is the expert. I only could sit by and watch how a seemingly healthy men 4 months later died sleeping next to me…
Secondly, father had metastatic liver cancer with unknown primary. Stage 4 liver cancer is a primary liver cancer metastizing out of the liver.
Stage four liver cancer
Stage four liver cancer is the last so called end stage liver cancer seen from the perspective of the cancer: the cancer started to spread to the second lobe of the liver, to an important blood vessel, to other organs or to the sheet of tissue that lines your abdomen. In other words: the cancer became a traveler inside your body, so there is no more stopping him now.
Metastatic Liver Cancer
Here a cancer has been traveling around your body and "put up base camp" in your liver. Whatever you do to eradicate base camp, there is still some cancer out there ready to travel again.
With father it was an unknown primary cancer: most cases the cancer is known and most likely started being a cancer in the colon.
Palliative care
I have to repeat that this site started with father having metastatic liver cancer but evolved into a palliative care blog, since father didn’t have the energy nor the lust to continue writing. He knew the end was near and that his children would take over the torch. For calling people an expert: father was the expert on metastatic liver cancer, but you don’t want to be an expert in somebody that kills you in quite an ugly way.
Briefly in our life we became expert palliative care takers, but we have to be humble when looking at our nephews who took care of their father for more than 20 years…
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