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Is Another Round Of Chemotherapy Recommendable?

hello doctor my dad has undergone surgery for HCC a 10 months ago, now the tumor has has been diagonised in ct scan ,he already undergone for chemo once,now the doctors are planning for another round of chemo,will the chemo works for him or should i look for other alternate treament? please help me
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi,
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I understand your concern on your father being suggested another round of chemotherapy following surgery for HCC. Cancer is a difficult disease to treat and is based on individual patients following response to initial treatment. It will not be wrong to go for another round of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is not one single treatment, it is a combination of medications that are infused in to the system to cause the cancer process to slow down and control the proliferation of malignant cells. There might be other treatments available for your father but every method is not suitable for all patients and a review of his past and present medical records is necessary. There are treatments like transcatheter arterial chemo embolization, radiofrequency ablation, focused radiation among others. Please have a discussion with his doctor and accept the one recommended.
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Is Another Round Of Chemotherapy Recommendable?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. I understand your concern on your father being suggested another round of chemotherapy following surgery for HCC. Cancer is a difficult disease to treat and is based on individual patients following response to initial treatment. It will not be wrong to go for another round of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is not one single treatment, it is a combination of medications that are infused in to the system to cause the cancer process to slow down and control the proliferation of malignant cells. There might be other treatments available for your father but every method is not suitable for all patients and a review of his past and present medical records is necessary. There are treatments like transcatheter arterial chemo embolization, radiofrequency ablation, focused radiation among others. Please have a discussion with his doctor and accept the one recommended.