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Liver met options

LazyBear
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So found out yesterday that hubby has a single small (less than 1cm) met on liver. Been referred to Leeds to liver team. There seems to be a bewildering array of treatments with the most likely seeming to be ablation or surgery. Not sure if chemo is likely again or not. Back to square one and so many questions again. 

  • I had a liver met about the same size. I had to have chemo first but that was to reduce the size of my primary cancer. Once the chemo was done I had liver ablation (thermal-basically it's an injection of microwaves into the tumour) it was great, just i pin prick scar and after 24hrs, the pain was managed just with paracetamol. Hopefully this will be an option for you. 

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