Mass in liver

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Laurie~
Hoping the biopsy results will come back quickly and that it's not positive for mets.
You've gotten a lot of great advice re: options, if you need them.
Let me add what I know/experienced with local, liver targeted therapies...
RFA - most effective on single lesions of a certain small size, unfortunately, under 11cm's. location of the lesion also influences whether or not RFA would be an effective/curative option.
Liver Resection - likely not your first option. my docs had me beat back the disease with chemo for a year before they agreed to go forward with this surgery.
ChemoEmbolization - using adriamycin beads and shooting them into the blood vessels that feed the tumor in the liver. via femoral artery to liver- sort of like an angiogram.I had this done 4 weeks ago with good success. We were going to repeat the procedure to clean up residual stuff last week, but I had to cxl as we're prepping me to screen for TDM1 and the procedure would have been a conflict. Full of beans had this procedure x 3 and had great success with staying NED in her liver ever since.
SIRTEX - like chemoembo, but using radioactive beads/pellets inserted in the blood vessels feeding the tumor instead of chemo.
I guess one of the questions would be is the priority to address the met with just localized liver directed therapy, or should you hit the whole system with chemo again?
There is no good answer, just a matter of what works best for you, your family and your docs.
I just hope that you don't need any of these options and you'll report back to us with news that it's not what they think.
In the meantime, hope you're able to push the stress of this aside, enjoy your weekend and your family and know that you have much strength and prayers coming your way from your friends here on the boards.

Keep the Faith~
Jessica