Metastasized Neuroendocrine Carcinoma into the Liver.?

Question

My mom just got diagnosed with Neuroendocrine Carcinoma that has metastasized into her liver. She is being treated with Chemotherapy, but they say that it is not a very effective form for treating that diagnosis. Does anyone else have any experience with this type of cancer or have any good, credible information?

Thanks

Answer 1

First of all I wanted to say I'm sorry about your mom's condition. I don't know if you believe in alternative medicine, but I can tell you that there are many treatments available out there. I can tell you that for a fact because my own mother had colon cancer that metastasizied to her liver. I don't know where your mom's cancer started,but chemo is nothing more than a poison cocktail that kills your immune system and will ultimatley fail and make her more sick then ever.If I can be of any help e-mail me at [e-mail]

Answer 2

You do not say where your mother's primary tumor was located and exactly what type neuroendocrine tumor she has. However you probably know that if the tumor has metastasized to her liver that this is a negative development. Without more info about all I can tell you is to make sure your mom is being treated by Drs who have plenty of experience in treating neuroendocrine tumors. Ask if the mets to her liver could be treated by chemo administered by hepatic artery embolization. This allows a very high dose of chemotherapy drug to be administered directly to the tumor without having to be processed by the liver first.

Some neuroendocrine tumors are treatable with various types of radiation therapy but your mom's Dr must have a good reason to be using chemo first.

Much of the info that applies to carcinoid tumors also applies to neuroendocrine tumors and sometimes the terms are used interchangeably so maybe the extensive carcinoid.org web page will be of some use to you.

http://www.carcinoid.org/

Wikipedia also has a good summary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroendocr...

There is a very active mailing list for carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors available at ACOR. They currently have 753 members so I suggest that you join here.

http://listserv.acor.org/archives/carcin...

good luck to you both