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 … Read more

Colon cancer chemotherapy

  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

Alternative treatments for cancer

Jim’s son’s test results are getting better and better. Learn which alternative treatments for cancer and chemotherapy he is using to cure his secondary liver cancer.   Compare his cancer treatments with the findings of Mayo Clinic : which 11 alternative treatments for cancer are worth trying? Mayo Clinic is an internationally renowned non-profit medical … Read more

New survivor Patti’s secondary liver cancer treatment eliminating chemotherapy side effects

Our 5th secondary liver cancer survivor Patty shares her latest cancer treatment option eliminating stress and eliminating chemotherapy side effects. Please comment if your experience is similar as hers.   Patti has secondary liver cancer with unknown primary. In other words: traditional health care has little to no clue how to treat a cancer they … Read more

Liver cancer treatments

All liver cancer treatments explained clearly. Starting from which 3 types of liver cancer exist, causes of primary liver cancer and hepatitis b and c prevention.   We explain all curative liver cancer treatment options and when they are used: resection, liver transplantation, PEI, RF, cryoablation, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and chemoembolisation.   Liver Cancer   There … Read more

How Ray became our third metastatic liver cancer survivor

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

What do you say to a man who is going to die

Charlotte’s father’s cancer starts resisting the chemotherapy he gets to cure his colon cancer and secondary liver cancer. In here comment at More news from Trish – metastatic liver cancer survivor, she aks:   What do you say to man who is going to die?   How would you answer that question? Please leave a … Read more

How to survive metastatic liver cancer?

Trish, one of our 2 metastatic liver cancer survivors has some questions for Dan – our other metastatic liver cancer survivor-.   Trish: recommended readings about cancer and cancer stages:   colon cancer stages: an overview from Stage 0 cancer to Stage IV cancer  Stages of throat cancer: a clear overview of 2 different ways … Read more

Breast cancer survivor stories – please contact Anne

We got a pessimistic sounding comment of Anne at Can chemotherapy cure metastatic liver cancer?. Therefore we call on all breast cancer survivors to share their stories with Anne on our special breast cancer stories pages:   Breast Cancer Stories from women who had breast cancer radiation treatment Breast Cancer Stories to help you discover the … Read more

Lisa’s father’s colon cancer spread to his liver

Lisa’s father has had over 130 colon cancer chemotherapy and/or liver cancer treatments in 5 years and still is not in remission. Lisa passes her condolences to Patrick at One caregiver is never enough! Patrick’s father has metastatic liver cancer and feels her father’s body is deteriorating to fast for comfort.   Please add your … Read more

Meet Dan: our second metastatic liver cancer survivor

Dan left a comment at Metastatic liver cancer mind games and is a metastatic liver cancer survivor for over 30 months now (that’s 2 and a half year).   That makes Dan our eldest secondary liver cancer survivor, followed by Trish (our first metastatic liver cancer survivor), who was diagnosed about 20 months ago.   … Read more

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.   … Read more

Can chemotherapy cure metastatic liver cancer?

  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

Avastin for metastatic liver cancer

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

Colonoscopy can’t always prevent metastatic liver cancer

  Laura’s mother (75) has cancer of the small intestine that spread to her liver. Her mom started having colonoscopy’s at the age of 50 and nothing showed up ever…   Unfortunately a colonoscopy test only looks into the rectum and colon through a long, flexible, narrow tube – the colonoscope. It doesn’t detect anything … Read more

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 … Read more