Liver cancer

[Harps135]

Just checking to how successful treatment of 11 centimeter cancer in the liver.

[spazure Caregiver]

Hello and welcome to the forums. Unfortuanately this isn't one I'm particular familiar with, but if it's one large tumor as opposed to lots of smaller ones, that does increase the rate of positive outcome, generally speaking.

[andersoncathl Caregiver]

Hello and welcome. I'm very sorry to hear that you are (or a loved one) are facing something like this. Back in 2003, my husband was diagnosed with a 10 cm liver tumor. He had portal vein involvement so that seemed to be the most complicating factor. He had several rounds of chemoembolization which seemed to help slow the disease progression a few months. Of course, quite a bit has happened since then and every situation is different.

[MT81 Caregiver]

Hi there. Im very new to this but here is my short experience w my dad who is 66:

He was diagnosed in Dec 2019 w HCC, a 8cm and a 2cm tumor. In his case resection is not an option because of the size and underlying cirrhosis Child A (he no longer has HepC) and transplant is not an option given invasion of the portal vein. His plan denied coverage of lenvima and he went 6 weeks without treatment. In early feb his tumor was 13x8x8 cm, right before he started lenvima. 6 weeks later the tumor had decreased to 10x5x3, the small one has essentially gone away. His next exam will be on 3/20 and we will see the response then. His team is now recommending radioembolization which seems to provide great results for patients in these very circumstances.

Good luck to you! We can do this!