Y-90 liver cancer treatment: What's your experience?

Hello @mudshark and welcome to Connect,

I appreciate you starting this discussion on y-90 treatment for liver cancer. From your post it appears like you have been dealing with liver cancer for a while. When was this originally diagnosed?

I found an article on Mayo's website about a man who had the y-90 treatment and was pleased with the results. If you scroll to the bottom of the article you will see that you can join the conversation by entering your information.
https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/patient-stories/patient-thankful-y90-treatment-slows-liver-cancer

I was first diagnosed With HCC early in 2018. I had lymphoma in 2004. After 10 years of follow up on the Lymphoma I thought cancer was behind me.

Hello @mudshark,

I understand the feeling of a recurrence of cancer after you feel it is "behind me." I have had three surgeries for a rare form of cancer, neuroendocrine tumors/carcinoid cancer. My third surgery was 11 years after the second surgery.

Is your lymphoma in remission now?

Hi @mudshark, I'd like to add my welcome. I'd also like to bring @tomewilson @afrancesca and @jerrydrennan who have talked about radioembolization (Y90) treatment.

Mudshark, (interested username) Did you experience any side effects of post-embolization syndrome, like fatigue, nausea, vomiting or fever? When will you have followup to discuss the effectiveness of the treatment?

The lymphoma is in remission. I have been declared cured of it.

I did not have a lot of bad side effects. Mostly a pain in my side, and fatigue. Both of which were pretty much what they told me would be possible. Today is 10 days after the procedure and I am beginning to feel pretty good.

I am scheduled for the y90 treatment for a liver tumor in July. I wan curious to hear of your experience since your's what awhile ago.

Hi @digibson, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I'm tagging @afrancesca and @jerrydrennan in the hopes that they may also have some experiences with radioembolization (Y90) treatment to share with you.

What questions do you have?

Hello all - I had the mapping for the y90 treatment yesterday and felt it went great! I'm a little fatigued but at work today. I felt the news afterword was pretty encouraging too. Of three possible carcinomas only 2 were cancerous and the third benign. I guess they can only radiate two at a time so it saves me from a second procedure. Now were scheduled to shoot on July 21. I have Hep C that caused liver damage and can start that med protocol (Eclusa) as soon as we're sure the cancer is gone which I'm anxious to get the liver damage stopped. Would like to hear from you. Thanks, Diane

When will you know if the procedure worked? Diane