What should we expect from liver & colon cancer? daddy 63 yrs.his liver is completely gone.doctors say it would't be much help to surgery on his colon.

??: Is liver gone because of spread of cancer or from something else? In either case, they may feel he is too high of a risk for surgery, but if the cancer is causing a blockage, he my be able to get a stent or maybe a more minor surgery to place a colostomy for symptom relief.

Unlikely Cure: My deepest sympathy to you and your family. Colon cancer that has spread entirely into the liver is in very advanced stages. Treatment for colon cancer has 2 attacks - local and systemic. The surgery only treats local disease, not the spread. The problem with surgery is that chemotherapy gets delayed - and chemo is the only way to treat the systemic disease, which is the bigger problem now.