HELP!? i think i am being lied too about liver cancer

Welcome Dan.

What I know about the transplant process is that the patient must have at least 1 year sobriety, 6 months documented substance abuse counseling (if there is a history), extensive physical and psychological evaluations, an extremely strong support system, and the ability (personally or through insurance) to pay for the surgery.  And all of that is just to - possibly - get listed.

Then, when a donor organ becomes available, IF there is a match, the doctors would notify the patient and surgery would take place - IF the patient is still healthy enough to survive the procedure.

It is legally impossible to schedule yourself for transplant.  In the case of cancer, there are several chemo procedures that would be attempted long before transplant would become necessary.

That being said, anyone who is actively drinking or drugging would never even be considered.

Hope that helps.

While this person may be lying about getting a transplant, he may be telling the truth about having liver cancer.  I was diagnosed with a cancerous mass in my liver, which extends into the vena cava and has metastasized to 2 lymph nodes near the liver.     The only symptom I have is being much more tired than I was with just the hep C, and sleeping a lot.  From what I've read here, this could be from amonia level being high, though I haven't been tested for that.  However, I HAVE gone through a bunch of scans and have the last one--brain CT--scheduled for the 29th.  I am having the scans done at a teaching hospital, but applying to Mayo in case I will be able to have a transplant.  They are requiring the past 6 months of medical records to make a medical evaluation, plus they will do a financial evaluation.  Of course, there will be pretesting, both psychological and medical, prior to a possible transplant.  I certainly don't foresee myself going off on an out-of-country jaunt right now--have neither the time nor energy.  So once again that brings into question the validity of this person's statements       (not the one who posted, but his relative.)

They are starting to do "living donor" transplants for adults.  They have been doing them on children for years.  They only need a part of a liver as it will grow back in the donor and grow to normal size in the recipient.

I had my last visit with my GI doc yesterday.  He said he has nothing else to offer me, and is passing me off to Oncology.  This is at the teaching hospital.  I got the results of my bone scan, which were good--nothing that indicates bone metastasis or any other problems.  I got all my records up to the present, and am mailing them off to Mayo this week.  I will then wait for an appt. with them.  I see Oncology on the 28th.

I'm new here and I just thought I'd jump in here.  I live in Canada and my daughter is presently in hospital waiting for a liver transplant.  She has been on the waiting list for 3 1/2 yrs.  She is in the end stages.  She has been at the top of the list in our province for over 6 months, now she is at a Stat 3 which is Canada-wide.  Her blood type is B Positive and I understand that only about 7% of people are that type, so that is why it is taking so long.  I don't know if she is at the top of the list now with the extended search.  She was at death's door a few wks ago and she was in an amonia-induced coma - they only gave her a few days to live.  She rallied and then they gave her 2 weeks to live without a transplant and that was about 2 1/2 wks ago and she seems to be getting stronger every day.  She is on dialysis 3x/wk and on insulin 4x/day.  She was told a long time ago that if she gets cancer of the liver, she would not qualify for a transplant.  We was also told that for Hep C patients that they don't do living donor transplants, because they don't do so well, so she needs a whole liver.

Last year my husband had 2/3 of his liver removed because of large tumors caused by Carcinoid Cancer.  At that time I met a lady whose hubby was in hosp. waiting for a liver transplant.  When they did tests on him, they discovered that he had not stopped drinking, and they refused him a transplant and he died.

So sadly Dan, your relative seems "out-to-lunch" to me.  Hope this info helps.

God Bless!