Liver Cancer Treatment & Ongoing Care

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy has a traditional response rate with both primary and metastatic cancers in the twenty percent range. A response is a situation in which there is either cancer shrinkage for a period of a few months or failure of the cancer to progress for a similar time. While I do not minimize the possibility of this treatment modality to provide real benefit, chemotherapy is a fallback position and will only be offered in combination with other treatment methods, when other methods have failed, when the situation is advanced beyond the point in which other treatment methods can help, or at times in advanced situations but ones in which we hope to downstage the patient to the point that he or she will be a candidate for other therapies.

Hopefully, the future will allow reconsideration of this position when newer, better, and less toxic chemotherapeutic agents are available for liver cancer treatment. I will not be able to offer experimental chemotherapy programs to my patients for the foreseeable future.

Contact my office to find out more about the viability of Chemotherapy as a method of liver cancer treatment.