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To: dinasour

Would a liver transplant be a viable option or is the cancer now systemic.


131 posted on 03/27/2007 7:13:20 AM PDT by AU72
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To: AU72
Would a liver transplant be a viable option or is the cancer now systemic.

From what little I know -- I am no doctor -- cancer patients are rarely candidates for transplant, because as dogbyte12 mentions at post 102, the immounosuppressant drugs weaken an already weak immune system, and combined with radiation or chemo, it would be frankly a waste of a scarce donor organ.

Surgery might be possible; the liver is relatively homogenous, compared to other major organs, so it might be possible to remove a lobe of the liver and the cancer with it, if there aren't too many metastes elsewhere.

173 posted on 03/27/2007 7:22:31 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: AU72

> Would a liver transplant be a viable option or is the cancer now systemic.

There is some news that this is not as bad as it would seem.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807452/posts?page=231#231


351 posted on 03/27/2007 8:41:25 AM PDT by dinasour (Pajamahadeen, SnowFlake, and Eeevil Doer.)
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