[Lauriesh]

Hi Penny, just wanted to offer encouragement that hopefully the Parp trial will be the one that works for you.

I also wanted to add that when I was diagnosed a year and a half ago with an 11 cm liver tumor, I tried to do everything I could do to help my liver.
I started taking milk thistle, and cut out alcohol, trans fats, artificial dyes, and excess sugar. Anything that I could find on the internet saying it was hard for the liver to process, I cut out.
I also read that the best foods to help the liver are onions and garlic, and vitamin A foods, (carrots and sweet potatoes) so ate (and still eat) tons of it.
I am not saying that is what "healed" me. I did do chemo and Herceptin, and had a good response, but I was so desperate when I found out how big my tumor was, I wanted to do anything I could to help my liver function better.
I had liver ablation done when mine had shrunk to 3 1/2 cm. The interventional radiologist said that she has done rfa on larger tumors, but the success rate falls, as you get larger than 3 cm.

Laurie