Treatments? Advanced Liver Cancer.

Hi,

My father-in-law was diagnosed this pass friday with primary liver cancer (HCC), due to hept.B.  The cancer is in its advanced stage and is 9mm.  the Dr. in Uath have pretty much told him that there is nothing they can do for him.  Our family (wife) is taking this very hard...as you migh imagin. Along with getting a 2nd opinion they are looking into alternative medicine, which I think is a waste of time, but at a time like this I guess people turn to what ever may work?  What treatments are out there?  He has no pain and doesn't look sick as of yet.  Any info is good info.

 Thank you

You don't say what treatment he has tried? 

Go get another opinion at a top hospital.  Don't stop looking until you get the answer you want to hear. 

I say this because I was diagnosed with Stage IV colon with mets to the liver in July of '04.  The top docs in my state said I could die at any moment, I had 18 months tops.  I went to one of the top 50 hospitals, which can be found here. 

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.h

I also suggest you read

http://www.blochcancer.org/

Go to patient info then read fighting cancer.  It helped me a lot.

But I used an HAI pump to direct FUDR directly into my liver.  So far, I have no  evidence of disease.

Good luck and let us know how we can help

 

Thank you, he hasn't started treament as of yet.  Thanks for the info I'm this will get the ball rolling.

 Has anyone heard of a herbal med. called Tian Xian from china??

I am going through a very simular situation with my father having the liver cancer. He was dianosed 3/12/07 I did some research on Tian Xian the FDA says that it is illegal to sell it in the U.S. so i did more reseach on other herbal remedies. I just started having my father take Essiac Tea and Noni Juice. The Essiac Tea is sussposed to detox your body and help your immune system and have testimonials of curing cancer. He has only been on it for a few days so i don't know if it works yet but it looks very encouraging there are many websites on it so I would check it out. You can purchase it at a local health food store. My prayers are with you in this hard time and hope you find the cure.

My very dear friend was just diagnoised with Advance liver cancer 2 weeks ago. The doctors told him he only had a couple of months and there was nothing he could do. Does anyone know of a treatment or medication that would make him feel better

Take a look at this website perhaps there is help to be found in this treatment. I just happened to find it while researching Intravenous Vitamin C. "The long-term survival of a patient with pancreatic cancer with metastases to the liver after treatment with the intravenous alpha-lipoic acid/low-dose naltrexone protocol." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d Blessings to you and to your friend Shemay

On 3/24/2007 More Information wrote:

My very dear friend was just diagnoised with Advance liver cancer 2 weeks ago. The doctors told him he only had a couple of months and there was nothing he could do. Does anyone know of a treatment or medication that would make him feel better

Hepatocellular Ca is thankfully a rare cancer in the states, worldwide it is more common due to poor sanitation and certain paracytes.  Only treatment is surgery and radiation.  There was a study at Johns Hopkins using antibodies to Ferritin (some HCC concentrate this protein)  They attached a radioisotope to deliver highly localizes irradiation to the tumor.  I will need to look it up again but the study was done by Stanely Order MD.  I don't know if radiofrequency has been tried or not.

"Hepatocellular Ca is thankfully a rare cancer in the states, worldwide it is more common due to poor sanitation and certain paracytes".

 Never the less wether its rare or not its hard for us to be thankful since someone in our family will die from this Cancer.

 

well said..there is nothing to be thankful..just bec HCC is not  common

amongst the populations here in the US...it is very unfortunate and a very

horrible disease for ANYONE to have.  My 42 yr old husband was born

in the Philippines during the 60's when there was no vaccine for any type

of hepatitits..and now he has liver cancer and is fighting for his life., there

is absolutely nothing to be thankful for esp. when there are small children

that will be growing up w/o their parents...

 

Hopefully more money will go into finding a way to detect this cancer in the furture, rather then looking at it as a problem for other poeple outside the U.S.  I bet if more american's had this illness the world would hear about it.