Hi my husband has colorectal tumour with metastises in both lobes of the liver, He has undergone radiotherapy and chermo in tablet form then a second treatment of cetuximab, oxiplaitin and fulfox? which have significantly reduced the tumour markers but we have been told the liver is inoperable here in the UK. We would like a second opinion and wondered where to achieve this
Hi and welcome to Chat Doctor. Thank you for the query. You didn't provide enough info about his condition, but general operability of hepatic tumors can be easily determined, so I don't think that your doctors did something wrong. Multiple metastasis may be removed. But in most cases if there are metasties in both lobes then there is usually vascular invasion and the removed part of liver would be too big to allow normal liver functioning. There are some modern nonsurgical therapeutic modalities(RFA, cloth, ultrasound TH etc.) beside chemo and radio, but the results are not promising. Wish you good health and good luck. Regards