how many times can you do this?
hicarm
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How many times can one have liver resections? The highest number I have heard is 4. Does anyone here have more than one liver resection?
My dad just had his second resection and details are in my previous post. His cancer camce back to the liver. I just cannot imagine numerous open surgeries.
Carm
My dad just had his second resection and details are in my previous post. His cancer camce back to the liver. I just cannot imagine numerous open surgeries.
Carm
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I just read the response here and realized I should have said, "My onc said I couldn't have another one." Could be because I had one lobe removed and part of the other one(about 50%). I will be interested to know if anyone has had this done again after resectioning this much. Hope so in case I need it at some future date.jams67 said:My onc said I could have another one and I've only had one. It may depend on how much they have to remove, or maybe there is new technology. That was over a year ago. jams
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I don't really know, buy my understanding is that the liver is like a lizards tail! Yeek.......it can grow back numerous times, I think.
Good question for your doctor.
-Susan0
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