Melanie Haiken helps you to help your parents at caring.com

Are your parents getting older and for the first time in need of help of any kind? Where do you start?

 

Is one of your loved ones diagnosed with secondary liver cancer? Where do you start?

 

For metastatic liver cancer you start with:

 

• your loved ones,
   
• your doctors and
   
• our website where you can find people who went the same path as you are about to walk

 

For helping your parents, you start at caring.com. This site supports everybody who wants to help their parents in any way.

 

Covering a much larger caring area than our site, logically you will find more than 1 editor, and Melanie Haiken is one of them: she is the Senior Editor of the Cancer channel at caring.com and like all of us, has had a loved one with cancer.

 

Melanie took care of her father while he was treating his esophageal cancer, which ended his life much too soon. She is a single mother of two daughters taking also care of her mother, who has multiple health problems including low vision.

 

We asked her to become a guest-writer on our site so she can explain you in person why you should visit here site as well.

 

Treatments for liver cancer

 

Melanie wrote a post titled New Hope for Liver Cancer. Summarized it’s about a new cancer treatment: new type of chemoembolization using tiny micro-beads soaked in the chemotherapy drug Adriamycin (doxorubicin).

 

These tiny beads get into very small blood vessels where they cut off the blood supply to the tumor and at the same time letting the drug kill the tumors at close range rather than traveling intravenous through the entire body.

 

For more details visit Melanie’s article. Meanwhile always remember what we write in our sidebar: our cancer survivors are where they are because they do everything right.

 

As promising as chemoembolization sounds, when you look for a cure for liver cancer : make sure you improve your health in any matter possible. Don’t put your eggs in one basket also applies when it comes to treating and surviving cancer.

 

By now you know we advocate an holistic cancer treatment: putting all the pieces of the puzzle together and looking at the pieces our metastatic liver cancer survivors are talking about (see our sidebar on the right).

 

We are looking forward for Melanie’s guest-posts so you can tap into her resources, website and support groups: the more you know and learn from people that go the same patch, the better you can care for your loved ones and yourself.

 

Please leave a comment and share your questions and stories as well!