Can someone please explain metastatic liver cancer to me? What is the cure rate?
Can someone please explain metastatic liver cancer to me? What is the cure rate?
Types of Melanoma
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Melanoma occurs when melanocytes (pigment cells) become malignant. Most pigment cells are in the skin; when melanoma starts in the skin, the disease is called cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma may also occur in the eye. Rarely, melanoma may arise in the meninges, the digestive tract, lymph nodes, or other areas where melanocytes are found.
Melanoma is one of the most common cancers. The chance of developing it increases with age, but this disease affects people of all ages. It can occur on any skin surface. In men, melanoma is often found on the trunk (the area between the shoulders and the hips) or the head and neck. In women, it often develops on the lower legs.
Melanoma is rare in black people and others with dark skin. When it does develop in dark-skinned people, it tends to occur under the fingernails or toenails, or on the palms or soles. When melanoma spreads, cancer cells may show up in nearby lymph nodes. Groups of lymph nodes are found throughout the body.
Lymph nodes trap bacteria, cancer cells, or other harmful substances that may be in the lymphatic system. If the cancer has reached the lymph nodes, it may mean that cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body such as the liver, lungs, or brain. In such cases, the cancer cells in the new tumor are still melanoma cells, and the disease is called metastatic melanoma, not liver, lung, or brain cancer.
No one knows the exact causes of melanoma. Doctors can seldom explain why one person gets melanoma and another does not. However, research has shown that people with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop melanoma. A risk factor is anything that increases a person’s chance of developing a disease. Still, many who do get this disease have no known risk factors.
People who are concerned about developing melanoma should talk with their doctor about the disease, the symptoms to watch for, and an appropriate schedule for checkups. The doctor’s advice will be based on the person’s personal and family history, medical history, and other risk factors. Doctors recommend that people take steps to help prevent and reduce the risk of melanoma caused by UV radiation.
Avoid exposure to the midday sun whenever possible. When your shadow is shorter than you are, remember to protect yourself from the sun. If you must be outside, wear long sleeves, long pants, and a hat with a wide brim. Protect yourself from UV radiation that can penetrate light clothing, windshields, and windows.
Protect yourself from UV radiation reflected by sand, water, snow, and ice. Help protect your skin by using a lotion, cream, or gel that contains sunscreen. Many doctors believe sunscreens may help prevent melanoma, especially sunscreens that reflect, absorb, or scatter both types of ultraviolet radiation. These sunscreen products will be labeled with “broad-spectrum coverage”.
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Sorry about your ordeal, having a loved one go through cancer is hard and unhappy.
Almost all cancers affect the liver eventually. Liver is a huge filter. It takes the blood and filters out what is harmful and sends it through the bowels to be sent out of the body.
The cancer cells end up in the liver since they float in the blood stream. Unfortunately when they do attack the liver, there is not much that can be done. Most those with liver cancer secondary to cancer that was originated somewhere else, don't expect to live very long.
Some cancers are genetic, colon is one of them. You should be checked when you're in your 30's.
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Metastatic liver cancer means the cancer started in her liver and spread to another part of the body. Usually the lungs or the bones. What you are describing below your question is colon cancer with mets to the liver. Either one is a stage 4 cancer and is very unlikely to be curable. However, treatment may extend life expectancy depending upon the extent of the mets and if the primary tumor was completely removed. Her oncologist would be the best person to ask. It is recommended that you begin colonoscopies when you ar 10 years younger than the age your mother was at diagnosis.
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I am a cancer registrar.
metastatic liver cancer means that there is a primary site somewhere in body…….which has spread through blood to liver…..it may have spread to other organs too.
this makes it a stage four cancer.
treatment basically is chemotherapy depending on the primary site causing mets.
single liver mets from colon can be even resected and there is option of radio frequency ablation if small lesion present after chemo.
now first thing is to search for primary and then chemo depending on it. the response to chemo will dictate the prognosis.
people have lived even after having liver mets if properly treated.
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according to the national cancer institute the one year survival rate for colon cancer that is at a distant site at the time of diagnosis is 40 % and the five year rate is 10%. that is not vary encouraging. keep in mind that that is for people who were diagnosed one to 5 years ago and doesn't take into consideration any advancements in medicine. this is also a statistic for everyone including those who don't take care of there bodies or actively participate after diagnosis.
Even though western medicine doesn't offer much hope I'm sure there are cures on the internet that will offer less if the statistics were known. If your mother peruses alternative treatments encourage her to check the science behind the theory and continue to work with her doctor.
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