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Give your condolences here: Farrah Fawcett death, June 25, 2009. Watch her home video taped documentary of her last 2,5 years battling cancer including seeking alternative cancer treatments in Germany. Farrah Fawcett died surrounded with her loved ones Farrah Fawcett dies after a 2,5 year battle against anal cancer. According to the American … Read more
Do you tell everything to your partner? Or are you like me: when you have a bad day but your partner shows up all happy, do you join in his happiness? Or do you spoil the mood with the bad things that happened in your day? You would say: "gosh, it all depends actually"… That’s … Read more
Listening to the radio, I heard that Singapore just developed a vaccine for treating colon cancer: the most likely cause of father’s metastatic cancer of unknown primary. This is not just "chemotherapy in a pill", like Xeloda is, but it’s a real cancer treatment! Basically the medicine customises the cancer patient’s own special immune cells! … Read more
Since father passed away from metastatic liver cancer 8 months ago, me and my hubby didn’t take any holiday. And last year we were supposed to go on holidays with our parents… which of course got cancelled as soon as we knew father had cancer. So we are really looking forward to a relaxing holiday, … Read more
We got a comment on our post Liver cancer is a killer, which we have to highlight more. Liver Cancer Story from Pammy My younger sister has just been diagnosed with aggressive secondary liver cancer she is poorly and can only have chemo to try to keep pain at bay,(that’s all they can do). Her … Read more
Hubby being overseas just sent me a great breast cancer awareness gift: a pink camera! (better than a postcard, mind you…). Hubby actually wanted to buy me a pink handphone, but handphones here are cheaper than where he is. I never saw a pink breast cancer awareness camera here, so I am quite happy to … Read more
For people having metastatic liver cancer, there is the bare reality of this blog that metastatic liver cancer can kill you. There is also hope given by Patti that you can fight this cancer with chemotherapy. Unlike father who was supposed to take 5FU chemotherapy, Patti is taking a Carboplatin/Gemcitibine combo and also Taxol. What … Read more
With October being breast cancer awareness month, I was just thinking that this month will reach almost everybody except children. So I am on a quest to find some cancer awareness games for children and stumbled upon www.makewish.org/ben. Ben, a kid with cancer made a wish to create a video game that could explain other … Read more
Unfortunately I am not a big football fan, and with hubby overseas, football is the last thing that would cross my mind these days. NFL games for breast cancer awareness Yet it seems that the NFL has dedicated the weekend of October 8 towards breast cancer awareness. Which gave me the idea: why don’t people … Read more
It has been ages since I posted an update from mom, and a surgery of the shoulder looks so minor when you read the story of Patti in one of the previous posts. But no good is good news, and in the case of mom this is quite true. Mom’s arm is getting better by … Read more
This month is all about breast cancer awareness. Mainly get as much people as possible talking about breast cancer this month.And since money talks as well: during the breast awareness month we want to raise money for breast cancer research. But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this post. In my … Read more
Like father, Patti has metastatic liver cancer from an unknown primary cancer. Unlike father: Patti is going for chemotherapy in order to beat the cancer. Patti is younger than father and Patti "only" has 4 masses in her liver, where father’s liver looked like a raisin bread filled with little tumors in stead of raisins… … Read more
Get breast cancer awareness products to support the cancer survivors and to support those people who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The Breast Cancer Society in Malaysia was selling pink T-shirts to raise money for the society to provide the necessary support for their members of the public who suffer from this disease. To … Read more
Breast cancer awareness day in UK this month is on Friday 26 October. Everyone is asked to wear pink and donate 2 pounds each so that the research for a CURE for breast cancer can continue. All you have to do is to put on a pink item of your choice, have fun doing it … Read more
The one way to participate in the breast cancer awareness month is to buy breast cancer awareness gifts like this "bath spa set". Of course you can now ask yourself: is this a good marketing trick to make the marketer rich or is this really about breast cancer awareness? Well, this question you need to … Read more
Did you know that breast cancer affects 1 in every 9 women worldwide? Make that 1 out of 4 in Asia according to the National cancer registry Malaysia. October is breast cancer awareness month and the B in OctoBer stands for Breast Mammogram. The best means of protection is self examination. To be even more … Read more
In Malaysia , it seems 1 out of 4 people suffer from cancer and this is a revelation for me. I have a few friends most of them women who were diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer. No one seems to know why there is a high incidence of cancer cases but I was told … Read more
My cousin who had suffered from obesity for many years was diagnosed with liver cancer a few years ago. He was at a shopping mall with his son one day and there was a liver function test being conducted by a medical association at that time, and he decided on a whim to test himself … Read more
I had a discussion yesterday with a friend of mine who was very unhappy that dad’s doctor didn’t tell dad he had cancer. According to my friend it’s unethical that a doctor doesn’t tell his patient he has cancer. Not only that, she wanted to start a petition to get rid of these so called … Read more
Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, died January 2007 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The only 56-year-old Bertrand, who battled cancer for over seven-and-a-half years, was surrounded by her children, Angelina and son James Haven, as well as Jolie’s partner, Brad Pitt. Who better than Angelina Jolie as an up front … Read more
Have you ever wondered why in your office suddenly there are some people wearing pink accessories? Then you have to ask them why! They will be happy to tell you that they are participating in the yearly October breast cancer awareness month. What you need to know is: as soon as you finish reading this … Read more
This is a follow up on my previous Colon Cancer Staging post. I had some more questions about it related to dad’s colon cancer, but thanks to the Dad cancer update by brother, I still have the same questions and no answers yet. First and foremost, let me show you the list of cancer types … Read more
With dad having colon cancer and metastatic liver cancer father most likely having had colon cancer as well, I am beginning to think that the universe is telling me to be aware that I can get cancer as well, even sooner than later. Seems that when you are about to become 50, you need to … Read more
Since me and my sister already took some days off and our brother lives the closest to the hospital, we sent brother to meet the surgeon and ask some follow up questions. The result is that brother tells us that father has a bad colon… Euhm: if dad had a good colon, he wouldn’t have … Read more
Why Cancer Staging Cancer staging is a way of identifying the cancer according to: size of the cancer has the cancer spread or not if the cancer has spread: how far has the cancer spread Cancer staging is done in order to have a better idea of which cancer treatment should be used. For the … Read more
The best colon cancer prevention is to cut down on meat and do a regular colonoscopy once you get about 40 or 50 years old. First and foremost, cut down on processed meat. Colon cancer just occurs much more in people having a diet with lots of processed meat in it. It’s not easy to … Read more
Although most people already faint when they hear the word cancer, what you really don’t want to hear is a stage 4 cancer. Stage 4 colon cancer means that the colon cancer has spread to other organs, generally that’s to the liver but it might as well go to the lungs or any other organ. … Read more
According to the doctor from the hospital where dad did his surgery, one of the reasons why some people get cancer and some don’t lies in their immune system. This doctor says there are 3 simple ways to boost your immune system: get enough sleep. How much sleep is enough, you should feel for yourself. … Read more
Short update what is going on now that dad has colon cancer and has undergone surgery as cancer treatment. we take turns so dad never is alone in the hospital (its good when you have a bunch of kids if you need somebody to take care of you, at least a few will help!) dad … Read more
To keep my mind a bit occupied with cancer yet also away from dad’s cancer, I was wondering what to do when my cat would have cancer? Since we don’t go for colonoscopy on our cat, would we ever know he would ever have cancer in the first place? Googling things up I was very … Read more
Unlike with father’s metastatic liver cancer where I blogged a lot about each and every day in the life of father dealing with his liver cancer, I am reluctant to write about dad (dad has colon cancer). It does make a difference when you are talking about your real dad in stead of your father … Read more
According to dad’s surgeon (dad has colon cancer), dad’s cancer was already 2 years old, so we should have seen the red flags in stead of thinking that dad had yet another food poisoning… Dad is my biological dad, father who died from metastatic liver cancer is hubby’s father… Dad was chronically constipated (due to … Read more
As a follow up of our previous dad has colon cancer post: dad had the cancer removed the operation went well dad already opened his eyes once according to the surgeon, dad will not die from cancer. We keep our fingers crossed because everybody knows that a colon is something that has to work every … Read more
The reason why most things in this world come in pairs, is that when one thing fails, you still have another one to replace it. Now when you marry, you get another father for the price of one. Unfortunately one father died because of metastatic liver cancer and now we hear that my father has … Read more
As in the case in human medicine, the causes of cancer in felines are often unknown. We never found out why father had metastatic liver cancer in the first place, and only God knows the why and what about Pavarotti’s pancreatic cancer. Having a cat myself and with my neighbours dog recently diagnosed with canine … Read more
Niece and nephew, temporarily living in mom’s house, got married this weekend. As usual with newly wed couples, their mind is far away of how to take care of mom… So for the time being we wish them all the best 🙂 Meanwhile we need to find a solution for mom. My own daughter is … Read more
Mom is quite strange when it comes to accepting help. But we all know mom and mom has a tendency to do everything her way or no way… So now she managed to get her 2 sisters, whom luckily got a degree as a nurse ages ago + 1 sister has been taking care of … Read more
I saw it already on Grey’s Anatomy that Merediths’ dog had canine cancer, but like all things TV and especially all things cancer: you only listen when it happens to you. And in the case of this canine cancer, I am listening because I can see the tears in my neighbours eyes when she got … Read more
My neighbor has a 10 year old mixed mongrel bitch that recently was diagnosed with cancer of the liver. The vet found a mass on her liver which was later found to be leiomyosarcoma. She was devastated when told of the news and the vet told her that the dog will not live more than … Read more
Last part in the trilogy of Hospital kicks mom out, read the 2 other parts: Cattle services better than hospitals Cattle services better than hospitals case study Mom says she hardly drank anything in the hospital because when you press the help bell: no nurse would show up anyway to bring her to the toilet. … Read more
When father had metastatic liver cancer and doctors said they couldn’t operate father because his liver was filled with raisin sized cancers, I started Googling for alternative liver cancer treatments. Yet you have to know that when you start searching for alternatives, you are looking for the latest technologies and findings… all very far away … Read more
Some people have been criticizing me that “I think I am an expert on liver cancer, yet they never heard me talking about the well known stage 4 liver cancer…” First and foremost: I am not an expert. My father had metastatic liver cancer, so he is the one who experienced it all. I only … Read more
First and foremost: every liver cancer is different and you need to listen to your doctor what he says about liver cancer prognosis. Do you any reason to be alarmed? Yes you do: 3 people out of 4 in the US diagnosed with liver cancer will die because of their cancer… The "good news" is … Read more
If you were very attentive in biology class, you know that there are no nerves in the liver, therefore it can’t feel any pain. So what was it all about that father needed more and more painkillers each and every day? This is because a tumor is a growth. And a growth needs space. And … Read more
There are a lot of ebooks out there about cancer, so I was thinking: why don’t I add one as well? Free of course! I want to focus on cancer stories: therefore not cancer survivors, but the stories about the people that have cancer and the loved ones around them. If everybody can write 1 … Read more
Sometimes there are moments in my day that suddenly it feels as if father is just next beside me, or behind my ears (yes, don’t ask me why I put the word ear here, but that’s where I feel him). I do remember always the same 3 episodes over and over: father hardworking on something … Read more
For one palliative care person to come by and sleep-over, not offering any other services: costs 30 USD. So what happened to health care? I mean, if you need to keep the patient in a hospital because you don’t have the manpower to treat them at home, doesn’t that cost much more than $30 AND … Read more
Father made the effort to start his online journal about his metastatic liver cancer at a stage of his life where the energy and life was drained out of his body. With all respect to father, I am going to re-read his complete metastatic liver cancer blog and try to make it in some sort … Read more
Almost 2 months ago I wrote a post How US blames other countries, where they said that: China’s agriculture is 100 years behind and China still uses Malachite Green: a poison to keep fish alive in dirty waters… Now what would I pay to have vegetables, crop, meat and fish with the taste and without … Read more
Yesterday I had a chat with my second cousin who’s father recently died of Liver Cancer. The son is doing his internship in Kuala Lumpur, "far far" away from his hometown, so we thought: let’s go for lunch and get to know each other. We didn’t talk about cancer, but I noticed the amount of … Read more
Step by Step your cancer questions answered! Again: time is the limit when you hear your loved one is diagnosed with cancer. You can then surf the Internet for hours or buy this book that summarizes all you need to know when you or your loved one has cancer. Cancer Research Online Made Easy : … Read more
For those who don’t know how to deal with a person that has cancer, read the life-experience of a terminal cancer patient below to get some inspiration. You can also read this complete liver cancer site day by day from the beginning until father died of metastatic liver cancer. But if your loved one has … Read more
Saw my friend in the elevator today: her hair is no more, means she is undergoing chemotherapy for her recurrent breast cancer. Since father had metastatic liver cancer, I learned that people just want to carry on with their normal life, so I am no more surprised seeing her showing up at work in stead … Read more
Ever heard of malachite green? It’s that green liquid they put in aquaria when fishes get ill. So far so good. It gets evil when you put it in a big dirty pool to breed fishes and sell them. Why ugly? Since the substance has been banned in US for almost 25 years. How can … Read more
Metastatic Liver CancerBlog of the day at PPP For all of you coming here through PayPerPost I got introduced to PPP by Colleen PPP feedback: it takes about 5 minutes to log on and browse through the opportunities, is this just me? I would love PPP made a fast user interface! PPP is a great … Read more
Yesterday my hubby had a terrible headache, which sounded to me like migraine. I played doctor myself and gave him the following migraine treatment prescription. Hubby mentioned he used to take "Cafergot" for it, yet we don’t have that in our house. Main 2 reasons why he has a migraine I guess is: having a … Read more
I just finished "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. It’s all about visualising your goals. Now if you have cancer, I don’t think you can cure yourself by just visualising that you are healthy again. If you have metastatic liver cancer, I won’t believe you can get cured just by visualizing. But it is just another … Read more
Or better said still: there seems to be a connection between cancer prevention and the consumption of tomatoes. A lot of tomatoes that is (if it was so easy only to eat a few tomatoes to become cancer free, why people would still have cancer? That wouldn’t make sense). Unfortunately studies are very poor: you … Read more
We are in the midst of updating our metastaticlivercancer.org website to make sure fathers’ voice to spread the word about metastatic liver cancer and cancer in general gets heard even better! For now we added a "subscribe to comments" checkbox, which means as soon as you leave a comment and thick the "subscribe to comments" … Read more
Since I explained in my previous post about cancer prevention that the food we eat is inducing the risk of getting cancer, we need to go back to basics: eat organic food. What you all know is that you should eat more fruit and veggies, but it only helps when these fruits and veggies are … Read more
We all know that "cancer is bad", but what about tumors? What is the difference between a cancer and a tumor? In proper English: cancer is a bad tumor What is a tumor? A tumor is "a bunch of cells that shouldn’t be there in the first place". What are cells? Cells are little tiny … Read more
For those that are new on this blog, a short summary what a metastatic liver cancer is all about. “Metastatic” was the word we quite didn’t understand when father was finally diagnosed after his health was fading ‘for no apparent reason’. I only understood the word ‘liver cancer’ so I started looking at all things … Read more
Cleaning up comments, I came across this very interesting comment of Jane Chin on my post : Why is cancer still around? Summarized I said: because cancer is big business for the drug and medicine companies, because cancer brings in lots of money for the hospitals. Jane says: I disagree with the logic that cancer … Read more
But all is ok now! Just a few stitches and further on we got away with a big bang and being kind of worried to say the least. So what’s happening? Mom is surely getting better and better after the death of her hubby due to metastatic liver cancer 3 months ago. But yesterday her … Read more
Yesterday evening my uncle suffering from kidney cancer, a broken hip and tremendous pain passed away inside the white walls of the hospital surrounded by his loved ones. Very sad because he had been fighting a 20 year old battle and didn’t want to die inside a hospital… We hereby offer our deepest condolences and … Read more
For doctors, “cancer” is easy: if a tumor is benign, "just" cut it out and case closed. Next… Now for a patient, things can be harder than that, like you can read at Tumor in the brain. Or just use your imagination what happens to a women’s hormones when the ovaries are removed… Father gone, … Read more
Mom was father’s care-taker and now father is no more: the big burden of taking care of father is gone. Yet also this adrenaline that keeps you awake 24hours on 24 and gives you the daily energy to take care of a palliative cancer patient is gone. No more adrenaline means mom starts feeling pain. … Read more
I am thinking back about my neighbour who died about 20 years ago of lung cancer. We talked about a lot of things as we were friends. We saw each other every day but he never told me he had lung cancer, not even on the day that I visited him in the hospital. I … Read more
Why aren’t decision makers eradicating cancer? Because they don’t love people therefore don’t care. Let me tell you my cancer experience so far: Many, many years ago my very best neighbour and friend died of lung cancer, yet it didn’t affect me much: people die don’t they? Father died of metastatic liver cancer and that … Read more
The doctors just gave up on our uncle with kidney cancer, now in the hospital in terrible pain due to a broken hip. But what does that mean that doctors give up on you? I asked the oncologist who gave up on my father having metastatic liver cancer and he answered: with what we know … Read more
Feeling guilty : This is something I hear from my mom and from my aunt. But really: what can you do more? Mom feels guilty that the last 2 nights she was not sleeping next to fathers bed, when I took over. I just saw mom was completely at her end, at the same time … Read more
Mom and dad were very angry when they first heard father had metastatic liver cancer. But as usual, father succeeded in toning down the angry faces. Father once told me: Eh, be patient! it’s me who is having this terrible cancer disease. And then I considered myself as the patient one… Yet it was not … Read more
As if you would have expect something different when your partner of more than 50 years dies of cancer. So what is mom doing these days? she cries every day (sometimes I have to hang up the phone, since she cannot speak through her tears) she talks non stop if she talks: here voice is … Read more
Today I phoned uncle’s house to see how he uncle is doing after his surgery, and I got a reply: don’t bother please. I noticed the word "please" in the sentence 🙂 Now this could sound strange, but I saw my mom doing the same when father had his liver cancer: just showing people the … Read more
Yesterday I watched the cancer story of a little Chinese girl suffering from skin cancer. The documentary is called "the girl who lives in the dark" and is told from the point of view of the skin cancer doctor. In my opinion a very over-optimistic view about modern an over-optimistic show about advanced surgical techniques … Read more