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What Is The Prognosis If Had Colon Cancer Metastasized To The Liver?
my brother is 45 yrs of age and they found colin cancer they took the cancer from his colin and now he has liver cancer but his stomach is not healing like it should and they stop his treatment till they can get his stomach healed so are the a chance that when they take the cancer from his liver will he be ok and pull through it without him passing away . my name is lisa from south carolina
Tue, 1 Jul 2014
unfortunately a spread of colon cancer to the liver is considered stage-4 and the five years survival in such patients is very less. You can google the survival statistics of stage-4 colon cancer to find the same.
if there are very few liver lesions, then they can be tackled by what is called 'radio-frequency ablation' where the intervention radiologist burns away the liver lesion with the help of a needle injected through the skin into the liver under sonography or C.T.Scan guidance.
talk to your colorectal surgeon about this and your patient may benefit from it.
take care
wish you good health
if there are very few liver lesions, then they can be tackled by what is called 'radio-frequency ablation' where the intervention radiologist burns away the liver lesion with the help of a needle injected through the skin into the liver under sonography or C.T.Scan guidance.
talk to your colorectal surgeon about this and your patient may benefit from it.
take care
wish you good health
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