positive scan results

janderson1964 said:

Thank you Kim. You have

Thank you Kim. You have always been so supportive.

Hi janderson.,

hope all goes well for you and you remain NED forever .

after my last TACE AND ABLATION procedures in Nov 2014

i had a scan recently and it shows three mets in same place as that

which was there earlier - so I guess the ablation and TACE were not 

really successful especially the recurrence in a month and a half !

after looking at the pet-ct the drs are confident that the Sirt procedure would be better and more effective in my case.

i am back in germany and they are going to map the blood vessels in liver to check that they dont end up feeding the lungs / intestinal tract. IN the case the blood supply is all not proper than sirt is out - but they dont think so. Tomorrow is the angiogram for the mapping and then an overnite stay.

Back in hospital on 3rd feb for the sirt procedure - 

 They intend to do the whole liver at one time - there seem to be three mets at various locations - approx 1 cm or so is what dr says .

The ct-pet report shows stagnant / a stable disease compared to the last ct-pet which was pre TACE and ablation. seems some micro metastasis outside the area ablated is growing a bit and that is showing the FdG uptake in the pet-ct. The met size is shown to be 3 to 4 cm ! However radiologist disagrees and says that it is micro metastases - and uptake is SUV 10 - which is high. So, I won't know for sure what the actual fact is. 

Also, the dr in germany say that a three day hospital stay post SIRT is a must due to the radiation etx.

since you have had SIRT recently can you pl fill me in on what one should be careful regarding etc - you can pm me or mail me.

thanks in anticipation.