Liver cancer; what kind of treatments are there?
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at
8:53 pm
Harh asked:
A family friend has been diagnosed with liver cancer. Apparently around half of his liver is “covered” with it and on the rest of his liver there seem to be something best described as “spots” of cancer. The tumor is malignant.
I wanted to know how liver cancer is treated. Obviously they could remove half the liver, but what would that involve? Can you live with only half a liver, are liver transplants an option?
He is 13 years old, if that has any difference on the treatment.
A family friend has been diagnosed with liver cancer. Apparently around half of his liver is “covered” with it and on the rest of his liver there seem to be something best described as “spots” of cancer. The tumor is malignant.
I wanted to know how liver cancer is treated. Obviously they could remove half the liver, but what would that involve? Can you live with only half a liver, are liver transplants an option?
He is 13 years old, if that has any difference on the treatment.
Thanks in advance.
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chemo, radiation, and a transplant. his family needs to discuss the options with his doctor. how did a 13 year old kid get liver cancer?
there are liver transplants…it needs to be treated as soon as possible because if it spreads to other organs there’s no point in a liver transplant. because then they would have to try to substitute other infected organs.
as the other answerer said there’s radioteraphy and chemotherapy…
The treatment options are a liver transplant, removal of the cancerous part of the liver, radiation and chemo-therapy. In a patient that young and in other-wise good health, he would be a prime candidate for am organ transplant. Asking how he got it is extremely insensitive since he got it the same way anyone gets cancer. There is no proven reason why ANYONE is struck by this terrible disease and cancer does not respect age, ethnicity or gender! We are all in the risk pool together. I’ve spent many hours in oncology treatment centers and the children sufferers are the ones that really got to me.
Hi. You gave a fair amount of info, but it’s still nowhere near enough to know anything. Can I ask why you haven’t discussed this with his parents?
If it’s a primary liver cancer, the main things you’d need to know are whether it has metastasized and what grade it is. Transplants can be an option in many cases if it hasn’t spread (and it’s primary liver cancer). The rest depends on the types of tumors. Chemo, radiation, knife surgery etc are all options.