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

Diane, I'm sorry to hear you weren't quite so lucky avoiding side effects with this Y90 round of treatment. Is the pain constant or are there times that it subsides? Are you able to eat okay?

I had my Y90 treatment 10 days ago. Unlike the first one i am suffering some side effects. Biggest problem is a little lethargy but the biggest is stomach pain. IR Doc said could last as long as two weeks so almost through it. Has anyone else experienced the paid in the abdomen? CT in three weeks and we'll get an idea if with worked. Blessings, Diane

Prayer to you! and thank you. We have a good IR and cancer doctor. We are in WI and treat in IL. We trust the doctors and trust that God will lead our team for the proper treatment and tools to dispute insurance. Prayer for success tomorrow. .

I don’t know anything about the H and N cancer and couldn’t even speculate. I have cancerous carcinomas on my liver but not cancer in my liver. Thank God it’s nothing metastasized into my liver. I wonder if that’s the reason y90 works for me. They fill the little bugers with the radiation beads and let them do their work. If they don’t recommend y90 what do they recommend for the liver? I wonder if they have 3 plans, one for H and N, one for the bones, and one for the liver. My interventional radiologist seems to have other tricks up his sleeve if this doesn’t work.

Are you just seeing a cancer dr or an interventional radiologist?

Where do you live? Would be happy to share mine! I’m in Denver and going to CU Medical Center and have endless trust in their specialists. But with that said if your going to Mayo it’s one of the best in the world.

My shoot is Tuesday. I’ll pray for you if you pray for me 😀.

We are in the process of trying to get Y90 approved for my husbands liver tumors. Its being declined because the liver is where his head and neck cancer metastasized and it is not an approved treatment for H & N cancer. I'm looking for medical data to support the success of Y90. He had unknown primary but the progression of cancer has been in the liver and possible growth in a few bones

I don't understand the comment that "gg B response was very low. They have never used alphabetic letters to describe my response? Can you clarify a little?

Thanks fir the info. I have surgery set for the 19th now because they told me here thatgg B response was very low with the Y 90

Good luck with your treatment results mudshark. Even though i still have to go back for another treatment I still this it's a highly effective treatment. My Interventional Radiologist said he intends to keep me off the liver transplant list. Other than the lesions i don't qualify at all. All liver enzymes are normal and MELD score it 7. Had asities but that's under control with low dose diuretics, have varices but small and not bleeds. Keep us posted with your results. Blessings, Diane

Thanks and bless you! Diane

I had it done at the Interventional Radiology Department UC Health, Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. That is where my Hepatology DR is also. Have Medicare and Humana supplement that has paid for it all.