Question 1

can chemotherapy work in helping to cure liver cancer?

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Nothing..: ...Indeed nothing cures liver cancer once you have it short of a liver transplant but mainly in case you have a primary liver tumor (hepatocellular carcinoma). If an alcoholic, have hiv, or substance abuser transplant is a contraindication! other treatments, chemo, radiation, partial resection, cryotherapy, heat therapy are basically palliative remedies only.

Question 2

is radiation therapy used to cure liver cancer?

Accepted Answer

Sometimes: If the cancer is from the liver cure is only possible by surgery.  If the cancer has spread to the liver and there is only one spot of metastasis then radiosurgery (a type of radiation and not surgery) can be used in an attempt to cure the patient.  In that case it depends on the size of the lesion and its location in the liver.

Question 3

how can liver cancer be cured?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Hepatocellular cancer can be cured in some patients who have limited resectable disease or who qualify for transplantation.  Transplant is typically only offered to patients who have single tumors less than 5cm in size or up to 3 less than 3cm.  Other techniques like ablation and chemoembolization sometimes work, but have less chance at achieving a cure.  Multidisciplinary review is recommended.

Question 4

are there any cures for stage 4 liver cancer?

Accepted Answer

Disease management: You can manage the disease, but you cannot make it go away completely.

Question 5

are there any cures for liver cancer or pancreatic cancer?

Accepted Answer

Surgery: With favorable tumors of either the liver or the pancreas, surgery, often combined with chemo may be curative. Both of these types of cancer and the surgical treatments for them are highly specialized and should be performed by a surgeon with experience and training in hepatobiliary surgery.

Question 6

is there a cure for liver cancer yet?

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Sometimes: Sometimes cancer that starts in the liver can be cured with surgical resection, although not all patients would be eligible for curative surgical resection when found.

Question 7

could there be a cure for liver cancer?

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Yes and No: It depends on the stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis. Most liver cancers are diagnosed late and hence are incurable. But 10-15% of the patients are cured, most of whom had a small tumor which could be removed or the  whole liver was removed completely and a new liver transplant was available. Your oncologist can address this question for your case better.

Question 8

is stage 3 liver cancer curable? i know the chances of surving it are probably low, but has anybody been cured of this stage? is it at least possible?

Accepted Answer

The : The simple answer is that, yes, people do survive stage 3 liver cancers. That said, it is difficult to predict the likelihood of survival from case to case, especially without more information than you've provided.  There are several types of primary liver cancer and their responses to therapy vary.

You are fortunate in that you live near some high-quality medical facilities.  Uc san fransisco and stanford are great programs with a multi-disciplinary approach to cancer therapy.  Your treatment options may include medical therapy, surgery, radiation, and minimally invasive image-guided interventions, and both of these facilities support the full range of options.  I would recommend that you contact either or both programs and make an appointment in their liver tumor clinics.

Question 9

father has liver cancer - will he have cure if chemoembolization?

Accepted Answer

Not usually: Chemoembolization is injecting chemotherapy agents directly into the tumor to decrease potential side effects from the same medication given to the whole body. However, liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is a difficult cancer to cure in the long term. There may be "remission", but a long term cure is less likely.

Question 10

has anyone  with liver cancer ever been cured with chemo therapy?

Accepted Answer

Probably not: Liver cancer is best treated with surgery, if caught early. Once it is inoperable, the treatments are mostly palliative and rarely curative. Unfortunately no chemotherapy drug has shown activity against Liver Cancer. So we have started exploring targeted therapies which, including Sorafenib, have provided modest degree of benefit and some increase  in overall survival.

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