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Gloria Koshinski - 14 Dec 2007 02:32 GMT

Husband is the one with colon cancer and mets to both lungs and lymph nodes
in trunk. Found out this week my mom has liver cancer. According to family
Dr. the good news is it is very early and small. He figures they can burn
it, starve it or freeze it. Shouldn't be any more invasive than the biopsy
was. Wednesday while my husband gets chemo she is having an MRI then a Pet
Scan. After that the Dr. will talk to us. Sure hope it is as simple as our
Dr. thinks. She is 81 and doubt she would do very well with chemo or
radiation. Husband has 1 more treatment after this Wednesday then another
cat scan for results. Hoping his good news continues. Will update on Mother
after talk with Dr.

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J - 14 Dec 2007 15:41 GMT

> Husband is the one with colon cancer and mets to both lungs and lymph nodes
> in trunk. Found out this week my mom has liver cancer. According to family
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> cat scan for results. Hoping his good news continues. Will update on Mother
> after talk with Dr.

Sorry to hear about your mother, Gloria.
As far as I know, cure for primary liver cancer is resection, if certain
criteria are met.
The others are palliative AFAIK
The problem on both counts, is that there's often spread which does not show up
on scans.
Nigh impossible to find them all. Starving? Too much vascularization in the
liver, AFAIK
If they're small and slower growing, it is sometimes kinder, at her age, to let
it be.
What brought her to get tested? A palpable lump?, jaundice?

Is there bone pain?
J

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Gloria Koshinski - 15 Dec 2007 02:33 GMT

>> Husband is the one with colon cancer and mets to both lungs and lymph
>> nodes
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> Is there bone pain?
> J

Going to get her teeth pulled and oral surgeon wanted okay from family Dr.
Blood work shows she is anemic. Went from both ends looking for bleeding.
Irregular blood vessels in stomach and burned them. She has had liver
problems for years, lathery binaurally cirrhosis or something like that.
Anyway Dr. thought she should have a cat scan of her liver and found a spot.
Had biopsy and Dr. doing that said very small and on liver not in it. She
says if she had known getting her teeth pulled was going to lead to all this
she wouldn't have wanted them done. Guess we will know more this next
Wednesday.

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J - 15 Dec 2007 10:35 GMT

> "J" <nswex@nalid;non> wrote in message
> >
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> she wouldn't have wanted them done. Guess we will know more this next
> Wednesday.

Goodness me ! A lot's happened and a lot still to go.
Sounds doable; I've not given up on her, but watch for the unexpected.
My uncle died of pneumonia, not the cancer.
Nobody, at the hospital nor family realized he had it.
Thanks for the extra info, Gloria. Sending good thoughts that all goes well.
J

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