Clear info, support, survivors and treatment of secondary liver cancer.
Or trail and error… Vicky shares her father’s colon cancer chemotherapy and the scary chemotherapy side effects. Vicky’s father was diagnosed with stage iv colon cancer that has spread into his lungs and liver. Her father started his chemotherapy for colon cancer with Avastin cancer drug. This colon cancer chemotherapy worked well that … Read more
Ray from UK hasn’t an individual health coverage and therefore stopped his successful Avastin chemotherapy to stabilise his metastatic liver cancer. Read more about our other 2 metastatic liver cancer survivors Trish and Dan: Dan Metastatic liver cancer survivor Trish Metastatic Liver Cancer Survivor On one hand I am surprised how seemingly easy … Read more
6 years old and needing chemotherapy… We got more reader’s input about Amanda’s question about the Avastin chemotherapy drug. This time we see that a combination of the following 3 chemotherapy drugs : Avastin, Dosataxol and Gemcitabine is working for 7 year old boy having Angiosarcoma of the liver. The side effects of his … Read more
From all the metastatic liver cancer stories we gather, few of them are told by a cancer survivor. Some that passed away did get chemotherapy, but this cancer treatment was only to: reduce pain (in case it can temporarily reduce or slow down the growth of a cancer) prolong life. But … Read more
What can Avastin do in the treatment of metastatic liver cancer? Reading the avastin.com website says that Avastin in combination with intravenous 5FU based chemotherapy is indicated for first- or second-line treatment of patients with metastatic carcinoma of the colon or rectum. In other words: it’s added to the 5FU chemotherapy cocktail, 5FU that … Read more