Can someone please explain metastatic liver cancer to me? What is the cure rate?
Irish Darling asked:
Can someone please explain metastatic liver cancer to me? My mother has this type of cancer. I know that it means the cancer started in her colon and spread to her liver, but I don’t know much of anything else…What is the cure rate? Am I more likely to get this cancer because my mother has it? Is it curable? Any information would be great! Thank you.
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Can someone please explain metastatic liver cancer to me? My mother has this type of cancer. I know that it means the cancer started in her colon and spread to her liver, but I don’t know much of anything else…What is the cure rate? Am I more likely to get this cancer because my mother has it? Is it curable? Any information would be great! Thank you.
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Tags: Cancer Cure, Colon, Liver Cancer, Metastatic Cancer, Type Of Cancer
September 26th, 2009 at 4:50 am
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Sorry about your ordeal, having a loved one go through cancer is hard and unhappy.
Almost all cancers affect the liver eventually. Liver is a huge filter. It takes the blood and filters out what is harmful and sends it through the bowels to be sent out of the body.
The cancer cells end up in the liver since they float in the blood stream. Unfortunately when they do attack the liver, there is not much that can be done. Most those with liver cancer secondary to cancer that was originated somewhere else, don’t expect to live very long.
Some cancers are genetic, colon is one of them. You should be checked when you’re in your 30’s.
September 27th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Metastatic liver cancer means the cancer started in her liver and spread to another part of the body. Usually the lungs or the bones. What you are describing below your question is colon cancer with mets to the liver. Either one is a stage 4 cancer and is very unlikely to be curable. However, treatment may extend life expectancy depending upon the extent of the mets and if the primary tumor was completely removed. Her oncologist would be the best person to ask. It is recommended that you begin colonoscopies when you ar 10 years younger than the age your mother was at diagnosis.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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metastatic liver cancer means that there is a primary site somewhere in body…….which has spread through blood to liver…..it may have spread to other organs too.
this makes it a stage four cancer.
treatment basically is chemotherapy depending on the primary site causing mets.
single liver mets from colon can be even resected and there is option of radio frequency ablation if small lesion present after chemo.
now first thing is to search for primary and then chemo depending on it. the response to chemo will dictate the prognosis.
people have lived even after having liver mets if properly treated.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 am
according to the national cancer institute the one year survival rate for colon cancer that is at a distant site at the time of diagnosis is 40 % and the five year rate is 10%. that is not vary encouraging. keep in mind that that is for people who were diagnosed one to 5 years ago and doesn’t take into consideration any advancements in medicine. this is also a statistic for everyone including those who don’t take care of there bodies or actively participate after diagnosis.
Even though western medicine doesn’t offer much hope I’m sure there are cures on the internet that will offer less if the statistics were known. If your mother peruses alternative treatments encourage her to check the science behind the theory and continue to work with her doctor.