hi there, i read your post. my husband has similar story to yours. he has nueroendocrine pancreatic cancer. he just had tail of pancreas removed where his primary tumor was. his cancer has metastasized to his liver and they have told us we are a candidate for a liver transplant. i wanted to follow up with you and see where you are with your treatment and if did have your liver transplant. thanks for any advice you may have.
thanks,
Jenna
On 11/20/2005 Kimgee wrote:
I was approved for a liver transplant last December and I will say that it is very rare to get approved if you've had cancer. If a person's body is prone to grow cancerous cells, they assume that it will return somewhere else in the body eventually. However, my doctors ran numerous tests all over my body and couldn't find cancer anywhere else except my liver. (My original tumor was in my pancreas, but they were able to remove the entire tumor, which was about the size of a grapefruit, so they said if it came back it would be in the liver, which it was.) It is a long process to get approved for transplant and my doctors worked diligently to get me approved. They felt they could prolong my life long enough to raise my children. Even though I had the transplant, I'm not out of the woods. Like I said, if your body produces cancerous cells, it's likely to do it again. That's why I take the Ambrotose. I really feel that my cells are working properly now and that it won't come back if I continue with complete nutrition. I also cut out junk food, sugar, most red meat and drink green or black tea everyday. I have never heard of the type of treatment that you are considering, but I know that there are all different types of tumors and it's possible that the pentreotide treatment would not have worked for me. My doctors said that there were very few drugs that were really effective on the liver and they felt that any type of chemo would make me sicker. I have a cousin that is a surgical oncologist and he has a few patients with cancer that metastisized to the liver and he has them on chemo and they have done pretty well, but he said that the tumors usually come back after the chemo is stopped. I live in Louisville, KY and have an excellent team of doctors that work at the Graham Brown Cancer Center. If you're not sure about your treatment options, I would suggest doing a lot of your own research on the web, as well as get a second opinion. Cancer is different in everybody and you have to find what works for your body.