Liver Levels

My father had color cancer in 2004. He had the resection surgery, and continued with chemo. Chemo made him worse than better. They stopped the chemo, but tested him every 6 months. He had a colonoscopy this past year and nothing was found. They do blood work every 6 months and everything has been good.

Recently he had elevated liver levels. They removed his medications he was on for 6 weeks, and they were still elevated.

He got a CTscan today and results will be in, in 2 days.

I'm very scared, worried and concerned. Has anyone had color cancer and had to deal with this situation? Could it be nothing/something? The levels were elevated slightly. I'm overly worried. Please help.

On 6/18/2008 DanaRae wrote:

My father had color cancer in 2004. He had the resection surgery, and continued with chemo. Chemo made him worse than better. They stopped the chemo, but tested him every 6 months. He had a colonoscopy this past year and nothing was found. They do blood work every 6 months and everything has been good.

Recently he had elevated liver levels. They removed his medications he was on for 6 weeks, and they were still elevated.

He got a CTscan today and results will be in, in 2 days.

I'm very scared, worried and concerned. Has anyone had color cancer and had to deal with this situation? Could it be nothing/something? The levels were elevated slightly. I'm overly worried. Please help.

 

I had a resection in 2003. The elevated number may or may not mean anything but the CTscan will tell. It shouldn't take 2 days to get the results but hang in there.

I finished chemo 18 months ago and my liver enzymes are slightly elevated, too.  The oncologist doesn't seem concerned.  I'm having surgery next week (small bowel) and the surgeon will take a liver biopsy at that time. 

Lynn

Thank you for the information. The CT scan revealed nothing in the liver, but soft tissue in the bowel. He has to go to the oncologist this week. I'm assuming for a biopsy and then possible resection surgery. The more I'm researching the more I'm finding out colon cancer patients have an ongoing resection surgery pattern. Is this common? What can "soft tissue" be? Another tumor, or scar tissue?