Metastatic liver cancer

This is a follow up on my previous Colon Cancer Staging post. I had some more questions about it related to dad’s colon cancer, but thanks to the Dad cancer update by brother, I still have the same questions and no answers yet.

First and foremost, let me show you the list of cancer types or better said cancer stages

• Stage 0: Very early cancer on the innermost layer of the intestine (adenocarcinoma seems to be the medical term for this cancer, so matter what stage it is in)
• Stage I: Cancer is in the inner layers of the colon
• Stage II: Cancer has spread through the muscle wall of the colon
• Stage III: Cancer has spread to the lymph nodes
• Stage IV: Cancer that has spread to other organs (read my other post about Stage 4 colon cancer)

From the 9 lymph nodes tested, dad has 5 with cancer. Although this isn’t good, one of the doctors said that dad wouldn’t die of cancer. Now I also remember one of father’s doctors saying about his metastatic liver cancer: we are on the good way of recovery. We never had another consultation with that doctor afterwards, "what a coincidence"….

Anyway, people want to have a crystal ball to see what the future will bring. But the previous doctor we spoke to said: first concentrate on father getting better from this colon operation, and after 3 months of so we will speak again.

With dad having colon cancer and metastatic liver cancer father most likely having had colon cancer as well, I am beginning to think that the universe is telling me to be aware that I can get cancer as well, even sooner than later. Seems that when you are about to become 50, you need to rethink your life strategies.

So I am cutting down on meat, or at least trying to, and in the process discovered avocados I never thought hat with some imagination they are as tasty as egg yolk, which is one of my favorites, yet due to the fear of getting a high cholesterol, I already cut egg yolk out of my diet as much as possible (now don’t look when I eat egg tart or any other cakes…).

I heard on the news a few days ago that avocados are "the new revolution" when it comes to cancer prevention, and since I like the taste, let me do some more research on that as well.

Since me and my sister already took some days off and our brother lives the closest to the hospital, we sent brother to meet the surgeon and ask some follow up questions.

The result is that brother tells us that father has a bad colon… Euhm: if dad had a good colon, he wouldn’t have colon cancer would he?

Now this is something you need to get used to: you don’t know what questions to ask unless you already had a loved one with cancer before. Colon cancer is new to my brother and it seems for him a 2 hour ride to get this information and no information about the cancer itself… it seems to have been ok for brother…