Liver metasteses from colon cancer

my husband has just been told that his liver metasteses (from colon cancer) are inoperable - there are at least 7 spread throughout his liver. Chemo (FOLFOX) will give him about 12 months and it is unlikely he will be considered for surgery thereafter. He is 57 and otherwise healthy. We will do anything - and go anywhere -but is there anyone out there who has survived this? And how? Do natural therapies combined with orthodox therapies play any role...please help!!!

On 5/20/2008 hartmut wrote:

my husband has just been told that his liver metasteses (from colon cancer) are inoperable - there are at least 7 spread throughout his liver. Chemo (FOLFOX) will give him about 12 months and it is unlikely he will be considered for surgery thereafter. He is 57 and otherwise healthy. We will do anything - and go anywhere -but is there anyone out there who has survived this? And how? Do natural therapies combined with orthodox therapies play any role...please help!!!

 

On 5/21/2008 hartmut wrote:

 

On 5/20/2008 hartmut wrote:

my husband has just been told that his liver metasteses (from colon cancer) are inoperable - there are at least 7 spread throughout his liver. Chemo (FOLFOX) will give him about 12 months and it is unlikely he will be considered for surgery thereafter. He is 57 and otherwise healthy. We will do anything - and go anywhere -but is there anyone out there who has survived this? And how? Do natural therapies combined with orthodox therapies play any role...please help!!!

Hi, sorry about your husband but there is hope. I had colon cancer 5 years ago and it spread to the liver a year ago last December. They gave me 6 months if I didn't do anything and an operation for me would be "tricky" as had 10 tumors with 1 on the blood supply. Multiple doctors told me the same thing. I found Dr Charles Staley at Emory Healhtcare's Winship Center Center in Atlanta who thought he could do it. I had 3 months of chemo to shrink the tumors and he operated a year ago April. A second medical opinion may help. Best wishes.

 

Thank you so much for your reply....how are you going now? Was your surgery a success?? I agrre about the second opinion and may even come to Atlanta!!! Worth chasing up may be a new drug called PV-10 by Provectus (an American firm) It is not chemo but a dye called Rose Bengal which has been around for about 100 years and was used to stain microscope slides. VERY successful trials have been completed in Sydney, Australia on terminal melanomas - they are trialling breast cancer tumours AND liver cancer. I have tried to find out something here about the liver cancer trials from here but have been unable (let me know if you have more luck!) The "drug" sounds marvellous - kills only the tumour cells and not the "good" cells - also knocks out neighbouring cancerous cells - no side effects and only one injection into a tumour is necessary. All the best - and once again THANKS