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by AllieG33
Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:37 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Proton Therapy for Liver Metastasis from Stage 4 Colon Cancer
Replies: 45
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Re: Proton Therapy for Liver Metastasis from Stage 4 Colon Cancer

Mine is a metastatic liver tumor, 1 of 3. I also have 2 lung mets and some mets in the abdominal cavity. The 1 tumor that they are going to treat is 3.7cm, increased from 3.1cm on a recent scan, while all other mets are smaller than 1cm and are not growing on chemo. The idea is to control the growth...
by AllieG33
Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:10 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Proton Therapy for Liver Metastasis from Stage 4 Colon Cancer
Replies: 45
Views: 25366

Re: Proton Therapy for Liver Metastasis from Stage 4 Colon Cancer

Thank you for posting on this topic. My Drs @ Penn recently suggested proton therapy to help with 1 liver met that is starting to become resistant to my current chemo, 5FU+Avastin, which is very tolerable for me. My understanding is that the proton therapy will ‘buy me’ a matter of either weeks or m...

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