My husband has metastatic, stage IV colon cancer, after having survived 7 years from his initial 3b colon cancer that was treated w/ 12 rounds of Folfox tx. The cancer spread is in several places but his liver is by far the worst spot. Liver is inoperable. He was given two choices...hospice w/ 9 mo. to a year before a serious occurrence or 2 to 3 years of chemo for the remainder and/or David decides to stop tx.

With little hope they decided to give my husband a Hepatic Artery Infusion Implant. Operation went well and he started his Floxuradine tx a month or so later. He has only had 2 HAI's because his bilirubin and ALT levels are abnormal. This chemo is 300 to 400 times more powerful directly to his liver w/ few to no side effects, which David enjoyed. The idea is to shrink his liver masses, making it/them operable. David still gets his systemic tx through his port because he has tumors in a few other places and he is battling those as well.

We are taking a brief hiatus hoping that he can resume both chemo tx's at the same time. I'm hoping to see how others and their tx's are working for them.