I already explained about my specific "adenocarcinoma treatment"
at Metastatic liver cancer facts : secondary liver cancer.
Adenocarcinoma treatment
2 things are important for adenocarcinoma treatment:
- In which stage did they find the cancer (in an early stage or not)
- Where does the adenocarcinoma come from?
If you are early in diagnosing your cancer, you cancer should be small and one should be able to remove the cancer with surgery or radiation. After that you could get some chemotherapy in order to make sure any "invisible" cancer will be removed: We are talking cancer cells, and cancer cells can be missed by the human eye…
If you are late in diagnosing your cancer, then no cancer cure can be found. What can be done is reducing the size of the tumor if your tumor like mine is growing big in my liver. You have 2 types of cancer:
- one cancer will destroy the cells around him
- another cancer like mine will just grow next to your normal cells, meaning the cancer cells are going to push against something: I can see my liver is grown and I can feel how hard it is. This hard tumor is pushing against my ribs and stomach, so it is getting more and more painful.
You can reduce the cancer by radiation therapy or chemotherapy, yet you need to consider for yourself: is the temporary taking away of a part of my cancer enough to suffer the side effects of radiation therapy or chemotherapy? The so called "Quality of life" question…
Quality of life
What is "quality of life"? My son said: visiting Finland… It also took me some time to really find out what quality of life really is these days. What it is not is being in bed with pain. Quality of life is being able to dress myself and be out of bed the whole day without pain. So summarized: quality of life is not having pain, when the pain is gone, I can leave a normal life…
Adenocarcinoma prognosis
If they know where your adenocarcinoma is located and the diagnosis happened early, you have a better chance of a cancer cure. With me the opposite happens:
- My cancer is diagnosed late (I could actually feel it myself already with my bare hands)
- The origin of my adenocarcinoma cancer is not found
The first prognosis I heard was that I would live between 4 and 18 months. The next liver specialist said 6 months to a year. The oncologist I met spoke of a few months… It is now about 1.5 months after my cancer was diagnosed, and the pain at days is so strong that I need my 1000mg Paracetamol every 4 hours. Yesterday my son asked the doctor for a stronger painkiller (Nomal or Contramal, I don’t know yet what the name is), which should be stronger yet not to harmful for my stomach nor giving me too much constipation. I will try and see what happens, if paracetamol can keep the pain under control, I don’t feel like taking stronger painkillers.
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