Which Treatment Should Be Selected

Hi all,

 My father is suffering from liver cancer  last month on 11.01.2006 his tumors in Seg.IV & VI were ablated by RFA (Radio Frequency Ablation) and now he is having tumor of around 2.3 cms in Seg. VII which has also spread in Seg. IV around 1.8 cms . Doctors are saying this time RFA is not possible as the tumor is very near to lungs . My questions are :

1. Whether RFA is possible ?

2. If not whether we should go for Therashpere treatment ( TARE ) of Chemoembolization (TACE) , his liver functions are elevated albumin < 3 & biliburin > 2.7 and is also having Hep. B and Liver Cirrhosis

 

Please advice

 

 

I am sorry to hear about your father.  My husband has just been informed he has liver cancer.  We are unsure of what type of treatment to try.

Did you make a choice of treatment and how it is going?

I will put your father on the prayer list.  Thanks for the information. 

 

 

 

Hi

I can understand what is going on with you as we are sailing in same boat. As regarding treatment of father earlier we had decided for TACE after one session of RFA but he got some allery from pre operation medicine so we have postponed the treatment and currently he is trying some naturopathy treatments.

 Hoping for the best for both of us

 thanks & regards

 

 

On 2/6/2007 Vishu wrote:

Hi all,

 My father is suffering from liver cancer  last month on 11.01.2006 his tumors in Seg.IV & VI were ablated by RFA (Radio Frequency Ablation) and now he is having tumor of around 2.3 cms in Seg. VII which has also spread in Seg. IV around 1.8 cms . Doctors are saying this time RFA is not possible as the tumor is very near to lungs . My questions are :

1. Whether RFA is possible ?

2. If not whether we should go for Therashpere treatment ( TARE ) of Chemoembolization (TACE) , his liver functions are elevated albumin < 3 & biliburin > 2.7 and is also having Hep. B and Liver Cirrhosis

 

Please advice

 

 

I also had a RFA on a lesion, the other two were close or under the lung. When you are under aenesthetic the lung is inflated so difficult to get to the others. The top man at Kings College was not keen on TACE, he 
said it was not always successful + risk of drawing 'spores' back when the needle
pulled out, unlike RFA necrosis is not instant with TACE.

I/we opted for a laproscopic approach from the side where the cavity would be inflated allowin the liver to fall to the bottom where the work could be
done. Unfortunately it was found that another 3 tumours had appeared, so we went ahead with a laproscopic re-section of the right lobe.