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Suggest An Alternate To Chemotherapy
I have recently gonn through 3 months of Taxol chemotherapy which was ver successful in shrinking various uterine cancers and lymph node cancers but the livr cancer did not respond. This latest regemine of chemo has left me totally exhausted and it wa suggeste that I take a month off then resume the taxol for the receptive cancers plus an additional chemical to hopefuly be responsive to the liver. This is my sixth session of chemotherapy and I m not sure I can tolerate further chemo treatment. Is radiation or some other treatment feasible. I am currently under the care of Dr. Ernest Han at the City of Hope. Sincerely (Mrs) Gail D. Davis
Mon, 9 Mar 2015
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Thanks for writing in.
Cancer is a difficult condition to treat and at times certain lesions in organs like liver might not respond as expected.
Liver metastasis occurs in many patients with cancer. Treatment of liver metastasis not responding or showing slow response to chemotherapy includes the following methods.
1. Surgery.
2. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
3. Local ablation (eg radiofrequency ablation).
4. Adjuvant chemotherapy.
5. Intra-arterial chemotherapy.
6. Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT)
Please discuss the above options with your doctor as there are criteria to provide treatment and the patient must have a cancer that shows features within the criteria of treatment. Please do not worry.
Thanks for writing in.
Cancer is a difficult condition to treat and at times certain lesions in organs like liver might not respond as expected.
Liver metastasis occurs in many patients with cancer. Treatment of liver metastasis not responding or showing slow response to chemotherapy includes the following methods.
1. Surgery.
2. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
3. Local ablation (eg radiofrequency ablation).
4. Adjuvant chemotherapy.
5. Intra-arterial chemotherapy.
6. Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT)
Please discuss the above options with your doctor as there are criteria to provide treatment and the patient must have a cancer that shows features within the criteria of treatment. Please do not worry.
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