Read why any conventional liver cancer prognosis by itself reduces your chances of survival by 80%. This is because a conventional prognosis is based on "normal medical efforts to treat secondary liver cancer".
Learn how our metastatic liver cancer survivors step outside the box.
Conventional cancer prognosis is only 1 part of the puzzle of your health
In stead of asking for a metastatic liver cancer prognosis, you need to ask:
‘Maybe there’s a chance’?
This will challenge your doctor.
Not that your doctor suddenly will perform a miracle. But it’s a much better way to start a dialogue with yourself and the caregivers around you.
Our father’s metastatic liver cancer prognosis
When we asked several doctors to give a prognosis, every time we got an answer to how little time father would have left on this planet.
Some doctors had a very short answer:
"your father is dying".
- other doctors added to that a timeframe and
- some other doctors prepared us about how to treat the pain that will occur with an ever expanding liver
What’s the value of a second opinion?
Some doctors have different experiences with cancer patients and will give more or less elaborated answers. But all they have in common is: they are conventional doctors.
Meaning although you broaden your horizon by asking more doctors, you are still just looking inside the box of modern medicine. As we all know, this box is:
- ideal when it comes to e.g. surgically replacing your damaged knee, but
- quite limited in offering cancer treatments that work.
If you want more input to answer the question: ‘Maybe there’s a chance’?, you need to look for opinions outside the box.
Sceptical boxes with only acai berries and liver cleanse
As soon as father was diagnosed with cancer, I went online looking for cancer treatments in and outside the box.
I came across helpful people: terminal cancer patient care-givers gave me a tremendous amount of mental support.
I also came across people who claimed miracles using acai berries or other liver cleanse products…
These liver cleanse people were ‘as friendly as a salesperson‘ and I treated them as such. I felt they merely wanted to sell me ‘another box’. Maybe they were hoping I was so desperate I would buy and try anything… Therefore I discarded their input.
Back inside the box looking for new cancer treatments
So I ended up again looking for new conventional cancer treatments like Hepatocellular Chemoembolization or Laser treatment for liver cancer and virtual colonoscopy.
The latter because normal colonoscopy wasn’t able to examine father’s colon completely due to a twist in his colon which we had already seen 10 years ago on his previous colonoscopy.
Virtual colonoscopy could have been a way of finding out if father’s primary cancer was somewhere in colon after all. And we all know that the prognosis for a stage iv colon cancer is much better than a prognosis that involves an unknown primary cancer.
Why didn’t we do virtual colonoscopy? Money! Virtual colonoscopy for a terminal patient wasn’t covered by the health insurance.
Notice the vicious circle: father was diagnosed as terminal patient using "normal medical efforts". Conventional colonoscopy couldn’t examine father’s total colon in an attempt to find the primary cancer.
Virtual colonoscopy would be "an extra effort" but father’s health insurance only covers "normal medical efforts".
Looking inside the box became a death end to find a new cancer treatment because of a lack of money.
Metastatic liver cancer survival
What every conventional metastatic liver cancer prognosis had in common was : the chances of metastatic liver cancer survival are zero to none, because non of the doctors we spoke to ever had seen any metastatic liver cancer survivor.
2 years after father’s prognosis, we are now blessed to know secondary liver cancer survivors.
This means the answer to ‘Maybe there’s a chance’? is yes.
We don’t believe in miracles and do believe in facts. In all these metastatic liver cancer survivor stories we see one thing in common:
- all survivors add ‘extras’ to the conventional chemotherapy as a cancer treatment
- money is not an obstacle due to good health insurance
What are the extra’s you need to survive secondary liver cancer?
So far we see that all our cancer survivors follow an holistic cancer treatment approach. This means they think inside and outside the conventional medicine box in order to improve their overall health as good as they can.
So far we see the following ‘commons’ to survive secondary liver cancer,
- 1. believe there is a cure : not even doubting that ‘Maybe there’s a chance’
- 2. using conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy
- 3. using alternative cancer treatments to boost their immune system and overall health
- 4. healthy body and soul : especially focus on less stress, more exercise and a healthy diet based on organic products
- 5. money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above exercise
It could well be that the deciding cancer cure ‘common’ is still not in the list, that’s why recently we added to the list:
- 6. Lots of love or "you gotta have a dog" based on pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze’s comment to Barbara Walters and CJ’s dog in Ovarian cancer survivor stories.
Thinking outside the box: conventional medicine just cannot find the 1 miracle cure for cancer. Most likely the real reason is that 1 miracle cure simply doesn’t exist on this planet Earth.
But the only way for a conventional cancer treatment to be successful is when it is supported by "all other common things that makes you a more healthy person".
Note I put "believing in a cancer cure" on top of the list. If you believe that a cancer treatment can cure you, the question ‘which conventional or alternative cancer therapy to use’ will be answered.
If the latter sounds ‘silly’ then look at it this way: how can any conventional chemotherapy cure the patient who doesn’t believe he can be cured?
Metastatic liver cancer prognosis summarized
The answer to ‘Maybe there’s a chance’? is yes !
After 2 years blogging we managed to gather a few metastatic liver cancer survivors on our site. E.g. read about Jim’s son’s still ongoing successful colon cancer treatment.
Father didn’t know about secondary liver cancer survivors. Once father accepted his prognosis predicting he couldn’t be cured, father’s battle was over. He simply didn’t have any glimpse of hope as none of the doctors were able to name even one metastatic liver cancer survivor.
If father had known one survivor, he wouldn’t have gone without a fight. Would he have won? We don’t know and we don’t believe in miracles.
The cure to liver cancer is not found in solely one box like:
- solely the chemotherapy box
- solely the liver cleanse box
- solely the acai berries box….
The cure to cancer lies in putting all the boxes together: using every available treatment and resource in order to become a healthy person again.
At this moment, we do know that there are secondary liver cancer survivors. They follow an holistic cancer treatment approach to support conventional cancer treatments.