what are survival rates when colon cancer matasticizing in the liver?

Answer 1

Unfortunately,this has a bad prognosis.Since the cancer has spread to the liver,it would be a stage 4.The 5 yr survival rate is less than 3%.Once again,everybody is different and this is just a statistic.

Answer 2

Ignore survival rates and statistics as they do not apply to individuals fighting cancer. Metastatic cancer is more difficult to treat, but not impossible. You just need to locate the best treatment options possible for your individual case and go for it.

Please read: The median isn't the message
which is about how statistics bring out the 'terminators' or the people who consider you dead before you've even started treatment due to 'statistics'. The Median certainly is not the message . . statistics and survival rates are a curiosity for others . . but are meaningless to cancer patients:

The Median Isn't the Message by Stephen Jay Gould
http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

"In July 1982, I learned that I was suffering from abdominal mesothelioma, a rare and serious cancer usually associated with exposure to asbestos. When I revived after surgery, I asked my first question of my doctor and chemotherapist: "What is the best technical literature about mesothelioma?" She replied, with a touch of diplomacy (the only departure she has ever made from direct frankness), that the medical literature contained nothing really worth reading.

Of course, trying to keep an intellectual away from literature works about as well as recommending chastity to Homo sapiens, the sexiest primate of all. As soon as I could walk, I made a beeline for Harvard's Countway medical library and punched mesothelioma into the computer's bibliographic search program. An hour later, surrounded by the latest literature on abdominal mesothelioma, I realized with a gulp why my doctor had offered that humane advice. The literature couldn't have been more brutally clear: mesothelioma is incurable, with a median mortality of only eight months after discovery. I sat stunned for about fifteen minutes, then smiled and said to myself: so that's why they didn't give me anything to read. Then my mind started to work again, thank goodness.
The problem may be briefly stated: What does "median mortality of eight months" signify in our vernacular? I suspect that most people, without training in statistics, would read such a statement as "I will probably be dead in eight months" - the very conclusion that must be avoided, since it isn't so, and since attitude matters so much.
When I learned about the eight-month median, my first intellectual reaction was: fine, half the people will live longer; now what are my chances of being in that half. I read for a furious and nervous hour and concluded, with relief: damned good. I possessed every one of the characteristics conferring a probability of longer life: I was young; my disease had been recognized in a relatively early stage; I would receive the nation's best medical treatment; I had the world to live for; I knew how to read the data properly and not despair.
One final point about statistical distributions. They apply only to a prescribed set of circumstances - in this case to survival with mesothelioma under conventional modes of treatment. If circumstances change, the distribution may alter. I was placed on an experimental protocol of treatment and, if fortune holds, will be in the first cohort of a new distribution with high median and a right tail extending to death by natural causes at advanced old age."

I know people who have had secondary metatasis to the liver from abdominal sarcoma. They had their liver tumors and lesions successfully treated with Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA). Suggest you check into the possibility.

Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=rfa&bhcp=1

There is always hope with treatment comes long term remission and cure.

Answer 3

any metastatic disease process has a much lower survival rate than treatment of the originating cancer.