Merck has no cure available to treat secondary liver cancer, so we recommend to get your support from our metastatic liver cancer survivors.
Why does Google rank Merck first?
Google for "metastatic liver cancer" and the top 2 results points to pharmaceutical company Merck:
Unfortunately, the information provided by Merck repeats what you will have heard from your doctor:
Metastatic liver cancer treatment
Treatment depends on how far the cancer has spread and what the primary cancer is. Options include the following:
- Chemotherapy drugs: These drugs may be used to temporarily shrink the tumor and prolong life, but they do not cure the cancer. Chemotherapy drugs may be injected into the liver’s main artery (the hepatic artery), providing a high concentration of the drugs directly to the cancer cells in the liver.
- Radiation therapy to the liver: Sometimes this treatment reduces severe pain, but it has little other benefit.
- Surgery: If only a single tumor or a few tumors are found in the liver, they may be surgically removed, especially if they originated in the intestines. However, not all experts consider this surgery worthwhile.
If cancer has spread extensively, usually all a doctor can do is relieve the symptoms (see Death and Dying: Symptoms During a Fatal Illness).
So why does Google think you need to hear again from Merck what you already heard several times from your doctors?
How helpful is the info of Merck?
Unless you never heard of metastatic liver cancer, Merck just confirms what you will have heard from your doctor and from the doctor where you got your second opinion:
there is no cure for metastatic liver cancer we will inform you about.
The power of metastatic liver cancer survivors
- At this rate I might damn well live forever
Trish shares her ups and downs after 25 months outliving her prognosis that she had at most 6 months to live.
- How to survive secondary liver cancer
Explore what our 4 metastatic liver cancer survivors have in common.
When father was diagnosed with secondary liver cancer, we had no hopeful example: we just didn’t know about anybody who survived metastatic liver cancer.
Therefore father "throw in the towel" without a fight: he accepted his days were numbered and tried to make the best of it. Best is an overstatement: just imagine:
- you are told that your days are numbered
- the way you are going to die ain’t pretty to say the least
What if father had known about the few metastatic liver cancer survivors that share their stories on our site? We will never know.
We do hope you get inspired that there are survivors out there and that their stories could help you in dealing with the disease.