Bowel cancer spread to liver

Hello Vincent,

My husband (whisperer) is second time too so I /we understand the anxiety. 

His metastasised to lung not liver. 

Like yourself surgery was not considered an option. I wish I knew more to help ease your mind. Hopefully others will be able to give some advice. 

In the mean time take the best care you can. You're not alone. 

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to respond and I wish your family safest travels going forward.

Hi Vincent,

I'm sorry to read of your situation. In some ways it's similar to my own experience -- see my profile. I had a liver resection operation aborted due to the increased number of mets they found when they opened  me up.

However, the mets were found to be RAS Wild (whatever that means) which I believe was the most favourable result, and I was put on a chemo mix of Folfox and Vectabix. I believe Vectabix is more akin to immunotherapy than actual chemo (anyone with proper knowledge please correct me!) . But the results after 6 cycles was very encouraging, and I'm now on cycle 10 of 12.

My message is 'don't give up' see what the cytology results produce and take it from there.

Wishing you all the best.......

Thank you - your words have helped.

Hi Sierraoscar 

Sorry to hear about your situation. However I would absolutely get a second opinion if you have picked that up correctly. Bowel cancer has normally  a few lines of treatment. My own mum actually stayed on first line chemo for a second time. She had some surgical options after that. Then another recurrence she went onto a second line treatment and got another good response. She was inoperable twice but chemo turned that around twice.

I am wondering if they are saying no point in using first line treatments again but at that point second line chemo can be an option for most people.
 
If you google Nice guidelines for stage 4 bowel cancer you will see the protocol.

Let me see if I can still find a very helpful booklet. Some people who are inoperable stay on a maintenance dose of Chemo for years.

My mum had a significant spread to her liver. We could hardly make it up the stairs that night after see what I could only describe as a fruit bowel of tumours. She lived 15 years after that diagnosis. Chemo on its own can be very powerful.

I am trying to remember correctly but she had two liver recurrences, One lung and then a further recurrence in her lung.

She lived a wonderful life in between treatments, traveled all over the place and gave us a legacy we are grateful for.

One step at a time. Getting a good treatment plan in place is a good start.

I will look for the booklet now.

court 

https://bcuk.adidocdn.dev/Publications/Bowel_Cancer_UK_Treating_Advanced_Bowel_Cancer_Booklet_2025.pdf

This is a great book to help you prepare for this next chapter in living with cancer . 
If you click on the link it should take you to it .

I am sorry you have to add more treatment to your life but there is definitely hope .

Court 

Thank you so much. The kindness of people on this forum has really helped and I’ve only been on it a few days.

I am in the car so did intend to reply to you. Not driving though! .

It’s good to see what others have achieved. It takes time to find your feet. But you will get there.