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[|Human|] Hi. My husband was diagnosed with colon cancer 10cm tumor , metastasized to his liver . The liver is speckled throughout. He is waiting for a call, in about a week, we were told, for his first appt with oncologist . He sleeps about 15 hrs/day and is having alot of trouble eating. He is fading very fast. I need a realistic timeline and our family doctor doesn t know. Can you help?
[|AI|]  Hello, For long time, patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer were considered to be incurable, and their prognosis was considered to be very dismal. Things have changed Chat Doctor.  Chemotherapy has become standard treatment for most patients with colorectal liver metastases. Although patients cannot be cured with chemotherapy alone, median overall survival has increased from less than 1 year in untreated patients to more than 1 year, and even to 18 months or more in recent trials with multi