On 9/13/2007
MOOLOU wrote:
On 7/27/2007 LiverCancer wrote:
Have anyone here used Nexavar for liver cancer? My dad has been on Nexavar for 7 weeks now, but instead of diarrhea, he has constipation and abdominal pain. Has anyone suffered the same problems besides loss of appetite and fatigue?
My husband started Nexavar a week ago, so far he does not have any diarrhea, but he has said that he has more stomach pain. He is fatigued. His liver cancer has spread to the Portal Vein. Does anyone know anything about this. He has advanced liver cancer. They have not given us any time line or anything. They were going to do a liver transplant until they found it in his Portal Vein.
I would appreciate any kind of information I can get.
Thanks,
DEb
My husband was also on the list for a liver transplant until they found the cancer was "too close to the portal vein". He did RFA first and it didn't work then he did Chemo Embo and tht doesn't seem to be working all that well either. He started Nexevar in 12/07. We will find out if the Chemo Embo and Nexevar together have done anything positive. We travel to Seattle tomorrow for their final determination. He first took four pills/day of Nexevar which made him very sick and his hands and feet were sore and red. We were told the soreness in the liver area was the treatments working. His Oncol. lowered his dose to two tablets/day for a week and now he's on three tablets/day. He is still pretty active but gets weak, low appetite and fatigue. Docs keep telling us for as sick as he is he's pretty healthy. One thing we're struggling with is his diabetes. He had type 2 but not severe before all this, now he's constantly battling it. Anyone else with tihs? He's taking insulin and pills, etc.
Hope this information helps, we're still looking for alternatives and information as well. It just seems like with all this research that there should be something more.