Liver Cancer Health Feed

Dear lybrate user,
please let me know what the biopsy report is. The treatment will be surgical removal if it's possible and chemotherapy. The possibility of cure will depend upon the type of cancer and stage. But in general liver cancers are harder to cure.

A good nursing care, keeping him joyful and diet as advised by doctor is the way to keep weakness away to some extent.

I would like to know hormonal status, may be your disease been very aggressive or there could be chance to have second primary in other breast.

It may be helpful in preventing the occurrence. Once the disease is already established it will not really be helpful. You can try it because it may delay the progress of the disease but not really proved.

Dear sir, your dad must have received chemotherapy because it was probably either locally advanced or metastatic. For liver metastases again the options are chemotherapy if general condition allows.

Stage four cancer colon, already spread to liver lung, prognosis is grim. Treatment is directed to get better quality of life.

It is a metastatic breast cancer. If she is er/pr positive then hormonal therapy is the best treatment. She may respond well. If still residual then chemotherapy can be tried.

Impact of drinking water in plastic bottles

We store water in all sorts of plastic bottles, jugs or containers. It can be low grade or high grade, but plastic is plastic! This is a very harmful daily practice as plastic containers carry lot of chemicals and bacteria.

Let s see the harmful effects of drinking water in plastic bottles:

1. Harmful substances: Apart from harmful chemicals in plastic, water when get stored in plastic bottles also produces harmful substance...more

Yes. A biopsy is necessary. Conducting considering the background of diabetes, some infections like tuberculosis or histoplasmosis may mimic cancer, the former ones being treatable. So a definite tissue diagnosis is absolutely required.
And some tumor markers can be detected by blood test also.

Age is not a contraindications to chemotherapy. Ability to tolerate chemotherapy depends on general condition of patient (performance status), adequate management of side effects of chemotherapy, disease load of the patient etc.