Bowel cancer spread to my liver

Hi Lost5678 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be. 

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Hi,

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry you are having more to go through . I am wondering if they are being cautious with you just to ensure the spread is from the colon cancer . 
A spread to the liver is a typical lymphatic route from the colon though .

The good news about bowel cancer spread going to the liver is it’s has a lot more options than other primary cancers which spread to the liver . They generally like to give chemo first to stabilise the spread and giving that systemically means all stray cells are dealt with .

Not wanting to tell you stuff you may already know but what they told us the liver has eight segments , Liver surgeons can take up to 75% of the liver away and it can regenerate . There is obviously criteria for this as they need around three clear segments .

Again there is criteria for this but Radio frequency ablation is also used in liver cancer mets .

For people with a spread through out the liver they can use maintenance chemo and again bowel cancer is better placed than some as it has many options and combinations .

Thats before we get to all the new immunotherapy etc which I know nothing about .

My mum had two years to stabilise her spread , two liver resections with the later removing 73% of her liver . It regenerated well and lived a further 13 years and assed at 82 .

I would also anticipate this to be largely outdated .

What I would say it’s not a situation without hope . It’s a lot to go through , but my mum had so many good times after a difficult diagnosis .

Best foot forward ,

Court 

Hi Lost 

My situation is somewhat similar at face value but we are all different and react In different ways.

As you can see from my profile is started with leukaemia and this helped actually to identify that I had problems elsewhere.  It is fair to say that without the scan I had back in late January I would not know that I had Stage 4 bowel cancer.

Scans in late 2023 did not show any issues so my lumps have been growing over the last 2 years. 

I have had 2 ops 1 on my liver to remove the lump and 1 to remove s large part of my bowel which they managed to reconnect without the need for stoma

Today I started my chemo journey. I have sore hand and believe me cold water on your hands is not friendly won't do that again.   Also a funny pain in my jaw when I went to eat but it only lasted a few seconds. 

That said everything has gone well.  I have never felt bad pain or been ill it's all managed well. 

Difficult to do but please try not to worry about things that may happen a lot of it won't and you will feel much better in yourself if you accept that these things have to be done. 

The success rate on face value is really good and in my case I look forward to beating this and  coming out the other end with my life ahead of me. You can do the same. 

Let fear give you the strength to tackle this head on knowing that you need it and that you have everything to look forward to.   

I can only wish you the very best for your journey and hope this will lead towards a happy healthy life.

Chin up. Try laughing I found it great therapy and good luck

Paul