Metastatic liver cancer

The recent sad news about Pavarotti pancreatic cancer reminds me a lot on fathers’ metastatic liver cancer.

Just that months ago I was so busy and so emotional involved, that the few posts I wrote those days maybe are a bit out of chronological context. We - that is father and me - started the blog, but at the end stage of father’s liver cancer, I took over.

Mainly in a quite emotional state where now hearing about Pavarotti, things fall back to place.

Cure for pancreatic cancer

I think the first thing I did when I heard about fathers cancer, was googling for a cure. Same I did when I heard about Pavarotti: what could be done to cure him? Or did he just make the decision to let live take its course…

For what I read on the Internet: pancreatic cancer is often far advanced by the time pancreatic cancer symptoms appear and that is why it is so difficult to treat.

As indicated by five-year survival rate of less than 5 %, successful treatment is rare.

It is a disease that is difficult to manage. It is one of the deadliest cancers, killing more than 95% of sufferers – usually within six months of diagnosis.

However, if the pancreatic cancer is found early, surgical removal may cure it. But in reality only 15 to 20% of pancreatic cancers are detected early enough.

For unknown reasons, pancreatic cancer is also relatively resistant to many chemotherapy drugs. However it seems that several newer drugs are beginning to show promise in increasing the response rate to pancreatic cancer treatment.

In other words: you don’t want to hear you are suffering from pancreatic cancer as much as you don’t want to hear you are suffering from metastatic liver cancer.

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