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Old 07-09-2010, 08:12 AM   #7
jml
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Re: Scan Results - Another Battle

So sorry you have to deal with this monster again.

I had a chemoembolization (with adriamyacin) to blast a lesion in my liver ~a month ago. The process was pretty straight forward and the procedure was much like having an angiogram. My scan results show good response, though not complete and we're going to repeat the procedure in 2 weeks, though this time considering using RFA.

I've had a long history with liver mets - since my primary dx 8 years ago. I battled multiple mets in the R lobe for a year, cleaned it up with chemo, but when a single lesion recurred & kept popping up, I had resection. Unfortunately, last October a new lesions popped up in my L lobe and now we're doing everything we can to beat that back.

There's also another procedure called SIRTEX where they use radioactive beads and inject them up in the the liver to block/kill the blood supply to the tumor.

hope this info is helpful and wishing you lots of luck~
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