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Can I Get A Liver Transplant For Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

Have there been any clinacal trials or people who s already had a liver transplant but still has Hep-C. I hate to mention this but I m a disabled vet. who if I hadn t read my medical files and found out I had Heptocelluar carcinoma on my own...... I would be dead, right now! I have proof the VA doc s. never intended on telling me by my written records !!!. I discovered I has cancer from an MRI taken nearly two (2) years earlier from a clerck when I asked him to look up the results of a biopsy about four months afterwards. Never informed by my treating (Fellow) who naturally was taking orders from her overseer who was a, supposedly REAL Doc. and knew all of my history. If my wife and I hadn t of confronted them.... Well you know the results of them not treating me. I ve asked for the new drugs, such as the new AbbieV drug , but they say since I m already immuno suppressed.... I might develop cancer again????? Anyway... have there been any test on transplanted patients with Hep-C, which is destroying my new cancer. They also tell me....They want to wait until I get in 2nd or almost third stage liver failure. Does that make scense? Usually when I make the effort to contact someone outside of the VA.... They immediately drop contact with me as Cancer centers of America and others did! Are you the same or or you looking for money and then do nothing as they and the VA intended on doing?
Mon, 20 Jun 2016
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hi,
I understand your resentment.
If i am not wrong you had liver transplant some time back and is hep c positive.
And now you are supposedly have HCC

If i am on correct line, then it is likely that the HCC is not very advanced stage. If that is the scenario, surgicl removal is an option if residual liver is functionally adequate. This is often determined on MRI liver.

Most likely the lesion is leaving surgical option out, that could be the reason you have not been offered. However if HCC is confirmed and non resectable then sorafenib is option. It can be give in hep c positive patient

Alpha feto protein level will be helpfull at this point for monitoring

Not sure what you meant with abbieV drug
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I already answered this question previously. I suggest coming up with more details about the case. The question appear t be reflecting more of the resentment than medical details

good luck

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Can I Get A Liver Transplant For Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

hi, I understand your resentment. If i am not wrong you had liver transplant some time back and is hep c positive. And now you are supposedly have HCC If i am on correct line, then it is likely that the HCC is not very advanced stage. If that is the scenario, surgicl removal is an option if residual liver is functionally adequate. This is often determined on MRI liver. Most likely the lesion is leaving surgical option out, that could be the reason you have not been offered. However if HCC is confirmed and non resectable then sorafenib is option. It can be give in hep c positive patient Alpha feto protein level will be helpfull at this point for monitoring Not sure what you meant with abbieV drug