How Long Can A Person Live With Liver Cancer?

This is a question that totally depends on what stage the cancer is at in the liver, when it was detected and whether the patient will be receiving treatment. Treatment is also a factor as life expectancy differs with different types of treatment. The best thing to do is to ask your doctor about this as they will have more insight into what stage they are looking at and also what treatment applies. Do also remember that life expectancy is only a guide and patients can occasionally live for a much longer or much shorter period than the life expectancy. Other medical issues can determine this, medication for liver function and for other illness and just how the body adjusts to treatment/the tumour.
Most people that suffer from liver cancer will pass away within 5 years, with 7% of sufferers living past the 5 year mark. There are liver transplant and treatment options that can increase the life expectancy.
There are 4 stages of liver cancer.
Stage 1 is where there is a small tumour on one lobe of the liver. This tumour will be less than 2cm in diameter and will not have spread.
Stage 2 is where there are several small tumours on one lobe of the liver. These will not have spread to other lobes or to any other body parts.
Stage 3 is split into two parts, both are classed as stage 3 but this is for different reasons. 3a is where the tumour has grown large and 3b is where the cancer in the liver has spread to the lymph nodes.
Stage 4 is where the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and also to other parts of the body.
A person will go thorough the stages but as with life expectancy, there is no way of accurately telling how quickly this will happen.

My friends mother was diagnosed with total liver cancer with no chance for surgery.  She has kidney failure as well and is on dialysis three days a week.  How long is life expectancy with all of this?

If the liver is over half filled with cancer and did not respond to chemo how long could one expect to liver?

My oldest sister was diagnosed with colon cancer and given 6 months to live; but she stood on her faith in God and she has made it to 5 years.  She now is taking Zalota in the pill form cause the doctor has tried all the chemo through the port that was workable.  Her last treatment (about a month ago) was a bad one cause she had a very severe reaction to it.  The doctor has said it is now on her lung, spleen, and liver.  The liver is the worst of it now.  The doctor gave er some hydrocodone for pain and sent her home saying to come back every 3 weeks for blood work and tumor marker readings.  Well this morning her oldest daughter called and wanted to know what was going on and what we should be telling everyone that asks us questions about her.  Well, the nurse told her that we are looking at about 6 months and the liver is affected the worst and will go first.  They told us some signs to look for; which she has most of them already except for the jaundice.  Can you shed a little more light on the subject as to what will happen or might happen in these last few months?

Thank you
Robin Teague

My  neighbor  was  diagnose  with  lung  cancer,  
and   6  months  later  ,  so  was  his  wife,
all  due  to  his  history  of   smoking
Well ,  she  got   cured   and  got  better ,
but   his  cancer   came  back  and  spreaded
to  his  liver   and   he  only  lived    2 years
after  they  were  both  diagnosed  and  given
treatment  

Liver cancer is a fatal type of cancer that kills patients within a year of contracting it. It is the fifth most common form of cancer that is found in the World. Approximately four hundred and fifty thousand people contract liver cancer annually. The disease is fairly less common in Western Europe and North America but more prominent in South East Asia and Sub Saharan Africa.

Once a person has contracted Hepatitis C that affects the liver the chances of contracting liver cancer rise considerably. Liver cancer that normally starts in some other part of the body and then spreads to the liver is called metastatic cancer whereas that one that originates in the liver itself is known as hepatocellular cancer. Over ninety percent of liver cancers belong to the later type.

In the last 6 months my wife was diagnosed with a lump in her breast....since then she has had a lumpectomy...and told the cancer had spread to her liver.

She has had chemotherapy ...which they stopped half way through as it wasn't working....now she is having radiotherapy to her ovaries to try and slow things down......no-one will give a timescale....but the prognosis is poor....

A nurse in cancer care told us she never knew anyone live longer than 5 years.....but she was optimistic

months is more realistic....even without symptoms

4-6 months

It really depends on the severity of the cancer stage. Different people with different immune systems. Also the ability to fight and to respond to treatment are all different ans we are all different

My husband has colon cancer and it has went to liver and lungs. I want to know why doctors are taken their time to start the meds?