Hi,
I am sorry but stage 4 of
liver cancer is a highly advanced stage where the cancer has metastasised to various other organs and parts of body, on top of that viral infection with
Hepatitis B has further complicated the things. Therapeutic approaches for the treatment of HCC can be classified into three categories: potentially curative, palliative, and symptomatic.
Potentially curative treatments, including liver resection,
transplantation, and local ablation, are associated with promising 5-year survival rates of up to 75%. But is not possible when carcionoma is in a very advanced stage. Due to the presence of excessive metastatic disease, the patient is not a candidate for curative surgical resection.
Other forms of local therapy, such as percutaneous ethanol injection, cryosurgery, radio frequency ablation, hepatic intra-arterial
chemotherapy, or
chemoembolization that typically play a role in the palliative treatment of patients with localized, non-resectable disease, are not appropriate in this patient with metastatic disease. Cryosurgical procedure can be tried but are not very successful. Follow advice of the doctor at CMC Vellore.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Ramesh Kumar