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

Hola, @mrdriguezc,

Lamento oír hablar de la metástasis en el peritoneo.

No, no conozco la respuesta a su pregunta sobre el tratamiento de ambos cánceres al mismo tiempo. Pregúntele a su médico si ambos cánceres pueden tratarse al mismo tiempo. Su médico puede aconsejarle mejor si necesita esperar hasta después de la inmunoterapia.

I was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, with 2 large tumors, plus... I was given 1 month and no possibility of a 'fix'. A week later, a doc approached me to suggest radioembolization. The first treatment halved the size of both tumors. A second treatment killed both tumors. This was 4 years and 2 grandchildren ago. It works! Obamacare payed 90%; since my income was small, the hospital paid the last 10%. I am blessed. We are blessed.

Hello @buddbugg

I appreciate you sharing your remarkable story about radioembolization. Could you share a bit more about the type of doctor who recommended this procedure? Was it your oncologist?

If you are comfortable sharing more, could you talk about what the procedure was like? Were you given anesthesia, was it similar to an MRI? Were there any side effects to the treatment, like nausea, etc.?

Hello everyone. I am new here. I just had my mapping done on the 16th, and tomorrow is another surgery. I was diagnosed non alcoholic auto immune hepatitis 3 years ago, but last summer spots appeared on my liver, and after MRI , CT, blood work and ultrasound, here I am. /The doctor who did the mapping said they want to go slow in inserting the 'seeds' so not to trigger liver failure. I'm being treated in San Francisco. This is all new to me. I'm alone without support.

Hi Teresa, I. Have liver damage from hep c so my Hepatologist recommended me to the interventional radiologist at the same hospital. I’m glad to say the procedure was a breeze. Light anesthesia because they cant cant put you under completely as you have to hold your breath etc while they’re taking X-rays but enough you’re not worried about the procedure. There was no pain during or after the procedure a little fatigue but I went to work the next day. I thank God for this procedure, before it the options just weren’t all that good. This procedure just continues to become more refined with all the medical research. I had it in July and a CT a month later that showed the little devils had shrunk and another in November that showed them even smaller.

It’s not similar to an MRI because they actually go into your groin with a needle to shoot the. Beads, They’ll do a mapping in the weeks prior first which is kind of a dry run so they know exactly where to shoot the beads. It didn’t hurt or have much in the way of after effects either.

Hope this takes some of the of the fear out of it for you. Really, i dreaded it to too but like so many things the dread is worse than the deed, it really wasn’t bad.

Stay on here, we’ll support you. THe procedure isn’t much different than the mapping These guys are so good at what they do and have had so much training not much should go wrong. As i said in the prior post its pretty successful. Research I’ve done states in studies its 95 percent effective.

Great to hear budbugg! If I may ask what were the size of your tumors and were they in your liver or attached to the outside? I’d do it again if i have to but hope now that mine continue to shrink. I had one 17x14cm and another a little smaller.

I too have have been diagnosed with this rare cancer as well. My first diagnosis (November 2017) with a tumor on my parotid gland, I had to have the gland removed and several lymphoids removed, followed with 36 radiation treatments and chemo. I had a recurrence of this cancer in November of this year on my liver and spine. They treated the liver with an ablation and the spine with 2 treatments of radiation. I pray this is end of the rare cancer.

Oops, the size of the carcinomas were 1.7 x 1.4 centimeters not 17 x 14. Sorry for the misinformation.

Hello @denisebrown67 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! I appreciate you sharing your story about your cancer treatment with the members of Connect who are just starting down this road.

If you are comfortable sharing more will you tell us a bit about your original diagnosis in 2017? For example, what diagnostic testing was used to discover this cancer; what type of symptoms were you having at that time?

Once again, welcome to Connect. I look forward to getting to know you.