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StephN · 10-26-2011, 04:35 PM

Dear Cool Lady -

I have been in the liver mets crowd myself, but due to so much spread was not a candidate for any kind of resection. Someone above mentioned "your liver regerates" - and I am wondering if you have had so much REMOVED there is a possibility that some will actually grow back. Have your docs mentioned any such thing?

I started a stiff round of multiple chemos plus Herceptin with only about 40% of my liver healthy, but it was scattered. The chemo had something IN my liver to go to work on, so I guess that is not the same as not having anything there at all.

Thanks for the explanation of everyone's schedules. Those are always a hurdle when you are seeking the best possible advice.

Wear the bracelet to your heart's content and burn those words into your brain. Make them overpower the doubt and unease you are feeling. The time will pass quickly if you let it.

10-26-2011, 04:35 PM	#18
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: Very nervous Dear Cool Lady - I have been in the liver mets crowd myself, but due to so much spread was not a candidate for any kind of resection. Someone above mentioned "your liver regerates" - and I am wondering if you have had so much REMOVED there is a possibility that some will actually grow back. Have your docs mentioned any such thing? I started a stiff round of multiple chemos plus Herceptin with only about 40% of my liver healthy, but it was scattered. The chemo had something IN my liver to go to work on, so I guess that is not the same as not having anything there at all. Thanks for the explanation of everyone's schedules. Those are always a hurdle when you are seeking the best possible advice. Wear the bracelet to your heart's content and burn those words into your brain. Make them overpower the doubt and unease you are feeling. The time will pass quickly if you let it. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.