I'm thankful that I have found this message board. I am also a patient of Dr. Yao's and have been doing chemotherapy for 12 months now. My question is, everyone seems to have had surgery, which Dr. Yao said was not an option for me. Did you have other forms of treatment before surgery? Had the tumors metastisized before you had surgery? My tumors had already spread to my liver and several lymph nodes, which is why Dr. Yao has said that surgery would be ineffective.