| Thanks for your reply. > I recommend to begin with Wikipedia, but I guess it's a rabbit hole you already entered. Yes. And my wife falls into the category of 1-.1% of cases, where it's uncertain if it's a cyst, a HC or a HCa, if its malignant or not (+ fully functioning liver, and alcohol consumption of 1 glass of champagne every 5 years). The standard liver cancer patient has a long history of alcoholism and well established liver-cirrhosis. This results in fear of losing her within 12 months and dim hope of it all being "manageable" long enough for her to see her grandkids. > * after a surgery + rays + chemo there are 5 or 10 years* Apparently chemo works everywhere, but not in the liver. > Internet is full of crackpots I know, there's a lot of quackery. And understandably people will willingly choose the esoteric, if it gives them solace by thinking to be in control. I'm not looking for quackery though. Rather like a single, or a group of Seheult MDs (https://twitter.com/MedCramVideos) just for liver-cancer and liver cysts. Following the advice of people like a Seheult is not precisely "Following the Science" but rather "Following the frontrunners of science". But I think this is exactly what a lot of people with a rare disease a looking for. |
The father of a friend died from liver cancer a few years ago. I think it was caused by an hepatitis instead of alcoholism. Anyway, he had some chemo delivered directly to the liver, but I'm not sure if that was a good/bad/stupid/fantastic/desperate idea.
Perhaps it can be useful to make a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance_spe... . The normal NMR is useful to see the shape, but this version is somewhat similar to a chemical analysis of the tissue and in some cases it can distinguish cancer from other similar problems. As I said before IANAMD.