Metastatic liver cancer

You can easily compare the metastatic liver cancer end symptoms to your beloved snowman melting away in front of your eyes…

It’s already bad enough that modern health care isn’t able to detect metastatic liver cancer symptoms early. Doctors don’t prepare you for the deterioration of the liver cancer patient either….

 

All the information we got from our GP:

 

• father has 3 to 6 months to live, make sure to focus on "quality of life"
   
• he will get more pain, so you will have to give more painkillers
   
• painkillers make a person constipated, so you will have to monitor that as well and react accordingly

 

Sounds easy, but reality is far different. And notice, the specialists said nothing about this, although one specialist said: it’s easy for us to say things between the 4 walls of a hospital, you guys will have to make it work outside now… So we were blessed to have a good and experienced GP.

 

Quality of life

 

Father has 3 to 6 months to live…

But each day of those, his health will be worse than the previous one. It’s difficult to talk about "quality of life" when our most important priority in life is health.

The pleasure of eating together is another joy in our family. Unfortunately the liver tumors are using up vital space in the belly region, so father only managed to eat small portions.

To make things worse (yes, it just doesn’t get any better anymore: that’s the reality of metastatic liver cancer): the tumor also uses up energy provided by the already smaller food intake. Loosing weight and strength are the direct consequences.

 

Pain has a function

 

Of course you don’t want to feel the pain caused by the liver pressing on your other organs.

But by suppressing that pain, you also suppress the normal pain reaction you will get when you feel constipated. In other words: you have no clue whether you are constipated, or you just haven’t been eating enough to go to the toilet…

There you are: being a non medical loved one having to make decisions you don’t have a clue about…

 

The brain starts playing tricks on the liver cancer patient

 

This was actually the worst of the worst. The liver is not cleaning the blood properly and from time to time messages in the brain don’t get through.

Sometimes father answered a question you asked him the day before. That’s good because you can still figure out the logic.

On other moments you couldn’t figure out the logic anymore. Luckily mom knew father the best and she managed much better to find logic in all what father was saying and doing.

But there was no logic when father started hitting a huge spider at the end of the bed that nobody else saw…

If you want to compare what is happening, then think about people that are in the dessert, deprived for water for a few days and starting to hallucinate.

 

The body becomes weaker

 

We had to start helping father physically as his strength was getting less and less. This is where mother ruptured the ligaments in her shoulder. We had some problems with our back, but compared to metastatic liver cancer, a little pain in the back is ridiculous actually.

 

Summarized

 

 

The best way to describe the end symptoms of metastatic liver cancer is to imagine a snowman melting away in the sun…

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13 liver cancer patients will have died when only 1 is still standing after 5 years. Think about this when you clap for a cancer survivor on TV: you are watching the exception to the rule.

Liver cancer survival rates are bottom low.

Worldwide 7 % of the people diagnosed with liver cancer will be alive 5 years later. This means if you have a room with 14 people diagnosed with liver cancer, only 1 of them will be alive in 5 years.

 

13 of these 14 people won’t stand a chance to be aired on TV at Oprah, Dr Oz, Dr Drew…

 

Please Oprah: stop saying "how smart" Dr. Oz is. Have a look at what Dr. Oz doesn’t know.

 

If you can only save 1 person out of 14 liver cancer patients,
then there is no reason to glorify the doctor’s knowledge…

 

We are happy that real people share real their cancer stories.

 

Reading these stories I hope people will realise that there is a bigger killer amongst us:
 

• it’s not a 6 feet tall terrorist hiding in some unreachable place,
• it’s an invisible killer that can strike anywhere, anytime
   

How can you clap for a liver cancer survivor when you know that his ‘13 fellow liver cancer patients’ have died in the mean time?

 

Clap for the real heroes:

 

• people taking care of their loved one having cancer
• people living on a planet that has no priorities in how to prevent cancer

 

Give your support and hugs to Debbie, who tells her liver cancer story:

 

Hello everyone.

Guess I am joining all of you with the story that my mother, Martha, mama to me has cancer of the liver and bone cancer, and etc.

We have been back and forth with this for almost 4 years and now she is going down hill every day.

Doctors really don’t know what they are doing any more.

Emotional roller coaster……

How do we except death of the people we love so dearly?

I will remember all of you.

 

Thanks Debbie, lots of hugs for you!

 

Please leave a comment, even if you don’t have any words to add, just add your name, hug, prayer or silence.

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Since there is no miracle liver cancer treatment, you better read our answers about how do your prevent liver cancer.

Liver cancer is the most common cancer in the world. It is also the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. You might enjoy the stories of cancer survivors, but reality is bitter. The prognosis for HCC is never good with a liver cancer survival rate of less than a year.

It may be impossible to prevent metastatic liver cancer, but there are possibilities of reducing the risks of getting primary liver cancer… or so says the medical world:

 

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and
getting the Hepatitis B vaccine
is the most effective way of preventing liver cancer

 

There are 2 parties involved in maintaining a healthy lifestyle:

 

1. your personal efforts in what you eat and how you live
2. the environment where you live in

 

We are living on an ever faster polluted earth: we are very limited in our efforts to live a healthy lifestyle on a polluted planet.

 

Primary and secondary liver cancer: 90-10

 

When people talk of prevention, they talk about primary cancer prevention.

Primary liver cancer is defined as cancer that begins in liver cells - called hepatocytes-. Primary liver cancer is called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which accounts for 90 per cent of liver cancer cases.

Secondary liver cancer or metastatic liver cancer is the result of the mutation of the cells from another type of cancer which spreads to the liver. So prevention here boils down to preventing the other cancer to occur.

 

Foods that prevent cancer

 

First and foremost our body lives on:

 

1. food and
2. fresh air.

 

So you better make sure you get the best of both.

 

1. Again, when it comes to fresh air, you are limited to the environment you live in. If you have the means: do move to a place where the air is more healthy than where you live now.
2. When it comes to food: go for organic grow fruits, organic vegetable and organic meat. You don’t want to fill your body with pesticide and herbicide residues: they do accumulate in fat. Ever wondered why obese people are more likely to get cancer? This is one of the reasons: their body just accumulates cancerous poisons…

 

Reducing the risks to prevent liver cancer

 

The keywords here are: reducing the risks, so that’s only a small part or reducing liver cancer… Better small than nothing but make sure you keep the whole picture in mind:

 

• live a healthy lifestyle
• on a healthy planet.

 

HCC is caused by several factors which include:

 

• chronic infection of hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C virus,
• cirrhosis or scar tissues of the liver,
• alcohol abuse,
• long-term exposure to alfatoxins, produced by many species of fungus that can be found in tree nuts, peanuts and other oilseed,
• smoking,
• long-term use of anabolic steroids and
• obesity.

 

Keywords here are : "which include". Some people look perfectly healthy and live a healthy lifestyle and still get liver cancer.

 

When you live in Malaysia: in 2003 from the 530 cases of HCC reported, 90% was caused by hepatitis B. So preventing people from getting hepatitis B will get rid of 90% of the primary liver cancers. Now that’s a good thing (if there is a guarantee like my father used to ask his oncologist after being diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer… unfortunately, there are no guarantees…).

 

It’s quite logical when 90% of the liver cancers are caused by hepatitis B, a simple solution to prevent liver cancer is getting a vaccination from hepatitis B. The vaccination will provide protection from the infectious disease and at the same time protect your liver from HCC.

 

Who is selling hepatitis B vaccins?

 

Did you notice we suddenly are not talking about living a healthy lifestyle on a healthy planet suddenly?

 

In stead we are talking about buying a vaccin from the medical industry. Similar chemical industries are also producing pesticides and herbicides with cancerous effects…

 

But if that’s the world we live in, we better take what’s available to be protected as much as possible. According to the World Health Organisation, hepatitis B vaccine has an outstanding record of safety and effectiveness. The vaccine is 95% cent effective in preventing children and adults from developing chronic infection, if and only if they have not yet been already infected.

 

A cure for liver cancer?

 

If there was a cure for cancer, you would have known it already by now and you won’t be reading it hidden far away in our metastatic liver cancer site.

 

Meanwhile Bayer Schering Pharma has recently launched Sorafenib as the oral targeted therapy for the treatment of liver cancer. Based on clinical trials, it is found that Sorafenib improves patient’s survival rate by 44 per cent.

 

This reminds me on father’s GP saying:

Try Xeloda: you could do yourself and your family a great pleasure.

 

The oncologist was more blunt:

It’s not because Xeloda is taken orally, that it’s as easy and effective as taking Aspirine. Xeloda is chemotherapy with all the terrible side-effects.

 

For now: as long as there isn’t a real cure for liver cancer, you better live as best as you can doing all things known about how do you prevent liver cancer.

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