When father had metastatic liver cancer and doctors said they couldn’t operate father because his liver was filled with raisin sized cancers, I started Googling for alternative liver cancer treatments.
Yet you have to know that when you start searching for alternatives, you are looking for the latest technologies and findings… all very far away from the local hospital we were treating father in.
One of these new treatments I found was laser treatment for liver cancer: also called laser ablation. First thing to ask doctors if ever they want to use this treatment is:
are you using it for curative care or for palliative care?
So that should be your wake up call: even with laser treatment for liver cancer, it still doesn’t mean it is a cure!
In father’s case it would have meant shrinking the tumors in his liver, so the overall liver wouldn’t be pushing too hard on the nearby organs. Yet at 75, father’s liver wouldn’t be able to recuperate faster than the unknown primary cancer would be able to seed now cancers in his liver.
Summary: whatever cure they propose for cancer treatment, always be clear that you know whether it is meant as a cure or just meant to relieve the patient’s pain or discomfort a bit during his palliative care period.
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