It was not an easy decision to make. On one hand of the hope that surgery could cure (with risk of dying on operation table), and on the other hand was to have safer approach by treatment first, then probably surgery, i.e. neoadjuvant therapy - "The most common reason for neoadjuvant therapy is to reduce the size of the tumor so as to facilitate more effective surgery". (from wikipedia)
Only much later, we learned through the experience that the hope of getting cure through surgery is almost a miracle, given dad's conditions of large tumour, portal vein thrombosis and micro blood vessels invaded.
If you ever come to this cross road of making such decision, a third opinion is probably what you need.
And we did.
My hubby and I went to see Dr Kong for third opinion. Dr Kong agreed that going straight to surgery to remove the tumour had risk of fatality. Neo-adjuvant therapy such as tace or sirt would be his recommendation.
At night, we all sat around at sis's home to discuss. Sis made the stand that she was against of surgery as first line. After much discussion, dad made the brave decision of going for surgery to remove the tumour.
As family, we decided to to respect patient's will and support him through!
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| 這是爸在前天 等 C醫生的時候，有點累，眠了一會兒！ |
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