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Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:32 am
by Witherap
Just curious, outside of chemo, what the options are for small hepatic mets close to ducts/arteries?
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:43 pm
by boxhill
Y90, possibly?
Definitely immunotherapy, if you aren't lumping that in with chemo.
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 12:32 pm
by Witherap
Unclear. Wondering about nanoknife and cryoablation too.
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 10:06 pm
by Jack&KatiesMommy
In February 2013 I had Irreversible electroporation (I think it is now called Nanaoknife) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on a tumor in my liver that was too close to my arterial artery to remove it or even to do RFA since the blood in the artery would cool the RFA too much for it to be effective on the cancer cells closest to the artery. It was very noninvasive...the tumor was eliminated and I have not had a recurrence.
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 8:36 pm
by Witherap
Thanks!
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:01 am
by MetastaticEquilibria
Just to throw another possibility out there: proton beam therapy, which I have had done on some inoperable liver mets.
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:41 pm
by mariane
HAI pump. My larger tumors were all badly located. 1 abuting vena cava. After shrinking they got all removed. Good luck!
Re: Liver met near artery and bile duct
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:42 pm
by mariane
However, HAI= chemo. I am sorry. I skimmed.