SIRT and next steps

MariMi 3 months ago

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Hello all,

I hope everyone is well... Could you please share your or your close one's experiences with SIRT for secondary liver cancer, and what further steps/treatments you/them have undergone after that? I am particularly interested in stories about people with cancer(s) that provided mixed responses to chemotherapy.

My husband has just undergone SIRT treatment for secondary liver cancer (that started in colon, which was dealt with by surgery). We are anxiously awaiting scans to see if it helped, but because of nature of the cancer in his liver, a number of metastases, and mixed responses from chemotherapy, we are just not sure what else we can do, what to research and try. SIRT should help to delay the progression of disease, but we are afraid to wait not doing anything, when perhaps there is something else out there... Thank you.

Kareno62 3 months ago

Hi MariMi Ive had a quick search on the site and can’t find a lot of previous posts about sirt - the one below is quite an old one?

Sirt

https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/TreatingAdvancedBowelCancer_BowelCancerUK.pdf

Hopefully there may be some more members along shortly and you could also ring the support desk to see if they are aware of any trials or treatments that may help?

Take care

Karen x

Macmillan Support Line - 0808 808 00 00, 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

court 3 months ago in reply to Kareno62

Hi Kareno62 I think Wellspring Had it recently .
My memory is a bit cloudy just now .

Court

Helpline Number 0808 808 0000

Wellspring 3 months ago in reply to court

Hi Kareno62

I had SIRT treatment also for a secondary in my liver having had bowel cancer treated by chemo and surgery. The treatment certainly shrank the tumour and gave me a surgery option. In my case, the disease, while smaller, is in an awkward spot that precludes surgery.

SIRT was a brilliant option with relatively few side effects compared with chemo and seemed pretty efficacious. At the time, it was used locally only for individual/isolated lesions.

I'm sure you’re doing so already, but please keep talking with your oncologist team, including the clinical nurse specialists, about what options may be suitable in your case. We’re all different.

You can read my story on this site, although it’s not quite up to date. Seem to be some parallels with your husband’s journey.

Every blessing

Wellspring

MariMi 3 months ago in reply to Wellspring

Thank you for sharing your story, really appreciate it. Today we had an appointment with one of the NHS oncologists, it doesn't look like there is anything else to give a go... There is chemotherapy in tablet form, but as far as I understood it is considered not really effective.

Just praying that CT scan in a few weeks and consultation with private oncologist will give us some positive news due to SIRT.

I feel I am just not handling this well, I just can't believe that this is happening. We've just got married, he's only 36 and is going through this... It feels like we haven't even started our life together...