On New Year's Eve, my Dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 liver cancer. The doctors give him 6 months.
They can't operate because the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes.
His options are to try a new type of radio therapy...SIR SPHERES.. where the radioactive material in injected into the cancerous mass. At the same time, he will also take an oral drug which acts like chemotherapy to treat the lymph nodes.
The news came as a huge shock to us. Totally unexpected.
About a month ago, Daddy had gone for a routine health screening bcos he complained about pains in his stomach. Which turned out to be 2 ulcers.
But the screening also showed up a mass in his liver, which we now know is cancer.
The doc told us it is caused by Hepatitis B.
Cancer must be the sneakiest disease on the planet...it just creeps up on you and throws U a whammy.
Dad has been trying to remain positive and focus on recovery rather than the negative.
I guess as with many diseases, the human spirit plays the biggest part in recovery.
No matter what doctors may say, the will to live is what matters the most.
Above all, there is always hope.
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I'm really sorry to hear that this happened. Hopefully he will have little pain from the cancer. It is difficult to write something under these circumstances, and hopefully you'll get more comments after this one. Let me know if there is something you need, I used to do cancer research and have various good contacts with oncologists throughout the USA.
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