Metastatic Liver Cancer

Small cell carcinoma of the lungs

What do you do when your oncologist gives you a small cell lung cancer prognosis of 6 months with chemotherapy and half as long without chemotherapy?
 
Gary wants to know. Please share your experience like we share ours.
 
Small cell lung cancer prognosis and secondary liver cancer
 
As far as I have experienced: as soon as doctors and [...]

Secondary liver cancer : I feel like I am doing this alone

 
Heather feels "she is doing it alone" in her comment at Metastatic liver cancer facts : secondary liver cancer.
 
That’s why we have our metastatic liver cancer site so everybody can share their experience and feelings with others:
 
to walk the path of secondary liver cancer together…
 
We ask all our readers: please leave a comment [...]

One caregiver is never enough! Patrick’s father has metastatic liver cancer

Patrick is scared for what is to come… Patrick’s story below (commented at Can chemotherapy cure metastatic liver cancer?) feels like he is telling our story with our father, our fears included …
 
We will share what we did in the hope, Patrick, you can gain some much needed strength out of it.
 
Get as much [...]

Metastatic liver cancer end symptoms

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 [...]

Please pray for Kathy’s liver metastasis

Kathy was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and metastatic liver cancer. Her sister Phyllis wrote the following comment on Cancer stages: cancer story from Gina Hage
 
My sister was just diagnosed with lung cancer (never smoked) brain,bone and liver metastasis and in her glands.
She did not have any symptoms, only occasional headaches which she took [...]

Hepatocellular Chemoembolization

When Kistan2 asked in her Liver Cancer story about alternative liver cancer treatments, we immediately had to think about hepatocellular chemoembolization.

chemo-embolization are 2 treatments in 1:

a chemotherapy through the artery feeding the liver cancer +
a closing of the above artery feeding the liver cancer

Immediately, because we went through the same quest when father was [...]

Angiosarcoma of the liver

Terese for Pammy and the rest of us(pammy’s liver cancer story please give your hugs)
I am reading this. My husband,45, has Angiosarcoma of the liver.He never smoked, took drugs or worked in a factory that emitted chemicals. We have two children,13 and 9, and we just found out that the chemo that they are using [...]

How to deal with pain

From Cathy to Pammy (request-from-pammy)Pammy,
My younger sister was also recently diagnosed with 4th stage metastaic liver cancer with the primary being her esophagus. She too has a 5 year old son and is a single mother. Due to lack of insurance she has fallen through the cracks of the healthcare system. She is in excruciating [...]

Request from Pammy

(read all the previous 5 posts if you don’t know about Pammy : Sad secondary liver cancer news, please give your support!)
hi pammy again,I am quite a spiritual person but I’m not into the big man above at the moment sorry !!!!!!!,
Ann has never been a smoker or drinker as such only the odd [...]

Cancer stages: cancer story from Gina Hage

Comment from Gina Hage at “Sad secondary liver cancer news, please give your support!” , with answer from Metastatic Liver Cancer.

I am just trying to research this liver cancer thing
My x husband has it and has refused treatment we have 3 kids together and he is just biding his time. I am wondering what [...]

Moms update

Mom was on the phone today having lots of questions about niece and nephew who were supposed to help her out after the surgery of her arm. Seems the surgery went really fine but mom is in pain as soon as she uses that arm.
Which basically means that everything above shoulder height is more [...]

Guest writers about pain and cancer wanted!

I keep on getting inbound links from my friend Colin who bogs about Chronic Pain Lifestyle. Now it’s nice to have a big blog, but it is even nicer if your blog about cancer or pain gets even more readers!
That’s why I invite all bloggers blogging about pain or cancer, or anybody who has a [...]

Update from mom over the phone by me

Mom went to see her surgeon yesterday and sounded quite depressed or tired on the phone today. Seems that the people who promised to help mom out are not really helping her out the way she expected. This can only mean that mom asks too much or the helpers give too little.
Seems that her [...]

Update about mom

Seems when people reach a certain age, doctors love to perform surgery…
Anyway, mom’s arm has undergone surgery about 5 weeks ago now. She still has the companionship of her 2 sisters who are retired nurses, but you can feel that the sisters want to continue their lives as well.
So far it seems that mom’s [...]

Pancreatic cancer survival

What happens if pancreatic cancer treatment no longer works? Basically the doctors tend to go to their next patient and you are kind of left in the cold when it comes to the medical world: in stead of focusing on a cure, the focus will be on living with as little pain as possible. The [...]

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