My sister has a rapid growing cancer and is doing cemo, her last cat scan showed no new tumors, tumors in her?

Question

lungs are smaller that a couple of months ago but the ones in her liver are bigger. Good news or bad?

Answer 1

I suspect that you already know the answer to this - it's a mixed result.

No new tumours is certainly positive,
Any increase in a tumour size (her liver) is not great news.
The reduction of the tumours in her lungs IS great news.

I guess it depends now on how the ones in her liver react over the coming days.

Of course if the tumours in her lungs were the one which were causing the most concern, then perhaps again this might be a little more posisitve than it seems at first.

The oncologist (cancer speciaiist) will be able to give FAR more accurate thoughts than any well meaning lay folks like me can give though - if possible please try and speak to one of the people who are treating her, they are QUALIFIED to comment.

Answer 2

It sounds very aggressive, like my mothers cancer. Some shrunk, while it continued to spread elsewhere, and at a faster speed then before chemo.

I am currently in the Bahamas with my Mother who has Terminal Lung Cancer. There is a clinic here that has been in operation for over 30 years. We have been here for 4 of our 8 week stay, everyday is really neat. A lot of the patients stick around in the meeting room/ waiting room to visit, and share stories and catch up. There were 40 people all talking and laughing, talking about cancer and life, the returning patients talk about how bad their cancer was 4, 8, 10 even 18 years ago when they started coming to the clinic, the cancer that has since disappeared. There is nothing dangerous or foreign to the treatment, just building up your immune system in a very effective manner so that it can effectively identify and fight the cancer. If you want to know more contact me or go to www.immunemedicine.com I cannot tell you how impressed I am with what I have seen and how my Mother has already improved. I know one man who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he skipped all US, conventional (poisonous, dangerous) options and went to the Bahamas and is doing great now. Another man who has been coming here for 18 years that had prostate cancer. People with just about every type of cancer. But, they are honest here, you send them your medical information and they will tell you whether they believe they can help you or not, and they will send you home if they don't think you are benefiting.

My mom has shown drastic improvements and is feeling so much better. and we are in the Bahamas so we are having a good Mother-Daughter vacation.

I have also done a lot of research on the Cesium Chloride/DMSO treatment and think that it has merit and you can do it at home.

The clinic here believes that a supplement/liquid called VIBE works really well in addition to other treatments, I am going to look in to that some more.

US doctors push chemo and radiation, but when you look at the statistics and side effects it is not a good option for a lot of people. My Mom had both before we came here and now that I know more about them and have researched them I feel horrible that I let her go through them. She was lucky (so far) the only long term side effect she has shown is short term memory loss.

The stories I have heard from the other patients here about how they were treated by US medicine astound me. One lady went home to have a shunt put in her liver so she would be ok to come here, but they refused to put it in unless she agreed to do chemotherapy, is that what our country is about? Denying helpful procedures unless we agree to dangerous, toxic ones? The drug companies run US medicine at least when it comes to cancer treatment and it is sad. Most doctors will tell you not to try alternative medicine and some will refuse to even see you again if you do. To some degree they are not to blame, they have not been taught anything about it other than that it is evil and wrong and they would be rejected by their colleagues if they suggested alternatives.

Please whatever you do, research, research, research!!!

One very helpful website is www.cancertutor.com

Good luck!!

Answer 3

this could be a mixed result, and could be confusing. The question is whether or no longer or no longer the present chemo is working, or if she needs to alter. in all probability needs to alter at this component, through fact the liver lesions are larger. yet, if the lesions in her lung are plenty smaller, and the lesions in her liver are slightly larger, her oncologist would decide for to proceed the present scientific care. using RECIST standards, you will be waiting to characteristic up the longest diameter of each lesion before and after chemo, to work out the final photograph, of whether she has extra maximum cancers or much less precise now.

Answer 4

Bad news. If there is any growing tumor, it is considered progressive disease. The smaller tumor will not kill her but the growing one will. We cannot settle for that chemotherapy.

Answer 5

lets hope that this is good news. have faith in jesus. i will pray for your family.