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Just to let you know my wife, Lisa, had RFA on liver mets. When we discovered that she had liver mets our Doc told us that we needed to get control of the cancer with Chemo and then we could consider RFA. Our first round of chemo resolved the initial set of mets (three 1cm tumors) but oddly three new tumors began to grow that were refractory to the drugs. Lisa went on Herceptin/Gemzar at that point. After 8 weeks the tumors were dissolving. Our Dr. wanted to do the RFA before the tumors completely disappeared.
Lisa went through the RFA on two of the three tumors, the third was actually excised from her liver. That tumor biopsy showed no living cancer.
Just a note, if you do RFA permanent spots are left on your liver that show up on subsequent scans. So each time you have a scan your radiologist will have to compare the location of the spots on each scan to ensure that nothing new has appeared.
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