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

Sorry for your lost yes I see that liver cancer is a lost battle but I had accepted with my cancer also lost my mother to same cancer as mine only hope there is a cure for future people I wish I could help more on finding a cure stay strong ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️

Dear Yiannis,

Oh I’m SO sad to hear this news. You must be devastated.

I know it doesn’t help much but you tried everything there was to try and arranged some of the best medical care available. Cancer is just an evil, evil unpredictable disease. Was it the liver or the colorectal cancer they couldn’t cure? I’m sorry the Y90, Lonsurf or the chemo was not more effective.

I’m sure you did everything in your power to make him comfortable towards the end. You got back to Greece and I’m sure he’s looking down at you saying thank you, thank you.

May God give you strength to get through this. Having been through it with my husband I know you feel like half of you is missing.

Please stay in touch if you just want to chat sometimes.

God bless,

Diane

Sadly I lost my love in January 25 we had done everything y90 lonsurf, chemo etc.
my question is why do they let people suffer when the cure is already here and big pharma continues to reap the dollars from the toxic chemicals used.
I am so sad at losing my soulmate and the other half of my soul.
We found d something to stop covid and yet we are still trying to find a pathway to a cure for cancers. Cancer is a devious enemy and it needs strategic planning in finding the language it speaketh…find the language and the development of a cure is there.
What can I say except I cry for all the souls lost to cancer.
President Biden’s Moonshot program indicates simply it is a shot to the moon and I ask what if that shot misses.
Appropriate it is as I have named it Stargate Cancer cures. For opening the stars to the gates of cure is what all cancer patients wish to have.
Please government officials no more blah blah blah and empty talk…ACTION NOW is needed.
I will be a strong advocate for finding the CURE in my own path of life.
Yiannis

Thanks Diane. This will be my first visit so mapping and treatment to follow. I had no tumor growth for two years but now it has started to grow. Hoping, like you, that no new rumored pop up. Sorry to hear you had a new tumor. Glad that Y90 is an option. Are you on the transplant list?
I also had varices. Low grade now but large enough to be handed first time around. I take Coreg to keep new ones from forming by alleviating portal hypertension. It has worked well. No more nose bleeds, bleeding gums, or feeling like I was having a heart attack sometimes even in the day, but usually at night. I’ve been on coreg for two years now and I am feeling much better. The banding was not bad either. Just like a regular endoscopy.
Good luck on your journey, Diane. Will let you know how it all shakes out. Thanks again for listening.

Mud shark. Curious to see if the y90 worked for you? Send a note when you have time. Diane

Tannins, chime in with an update. I haven’t heard from you in a vary long time.

I it a second treatment or the first treatment after the mapping?

I’ve now had two mappings and three radiation shoots, Was a little disappointing because I had gone almost a year without a tumor popping up then all of a sudden it came out of nowhere.This was a little scary because there was a thrombus attached that was trying to sneak into a branch of the portal vein. Once in the portal vain it can spread to the rest of the liver. Scans have since shown that it did not spread thank God.

Since I’ve been through it two other times I’m pretty secure they will kill this one too, The others I had Y90 on are still there but they’re dead,

I still support y90 and would do it as many times as I can because It’s worked for me but I’m really praying no more tumors will pop up.

I always have a CT scan a month after treatment and they can pretty much tell what it did then every three months to keep an eye on it.

Has anyone else had experiences with varacies? I have had them since I was diagnosed with cirrhosis but they were small grade 1 and too small to be banded. This last EGD I had showed grade 3 and they banded four.

Soooo this was kind of bad news month after doing so well for two years.

Let us know what they are recommending after you meet with IR this week and good luck Parrot.

Diane,
Hoping your second Y90 treatment does the trick and kills the active tumors. I am wondering how long it took to get the results and what the timeline was for the follow up as I have an appointment with IR coming up next week to discuss treatment options for my HCC. Thank you and please let us know how you are doing.

I couldn’t say enough good about it. Had it done twice and the first shot really slowed the tumors (had 3) down and second shot killed them.. Fo now, I say that because we check every 3 months to make sure nothing more has sprung up and these are still dead, The first treatment was a breeze, back at work in one day the second made me feel like I had a screwdriver in my side for two weeks, Small price to pay if the tumors are gone, Pain would have been easier because they prescribed oxycodone which I was afraid to take most of the tine, Do you have cirrhosis that caused the tumors ti spin off or is something else causing the liver cancer?

I also have the burping n hiccups since receiving the y 90 no acid reflex I started taking enzymes with each meal helped tremendously (enzymedica) that's the brand also smaller meals more frequently. Muscle mass goes along with having low protein so I also started taking protein pills 5 with exact amino acids in them. I found a great brand just for that purpose. I will send you the name, I'm not at home. Good luck with your meeting. I have HCC 2 TUMORS in right lobe and tumors that branched off in my portal vein and in branches. They did Mayo clinic Y90 directly in liver and it spread as well into lymph node so high doses
of radiation was done for 5 day's. I finished last week Friday. I'll let you know how it goes. Have a blessed day!
Dorina