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[|Human|] Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ?  Please type your query here...  Dear doctor,I need your help very urgently.My mother has got a cancer & i want to get it cured as soon as possible. We did check up @ tata memorial hospital mumbai, they have written in their report that she has heptacellular lives cancer. They removed one tumor kind of thing from her liver & they told us to take her to any doctor & she will be ok.then she was feeling good for two months but suddenly she has started to become thinner. Her liver got swelled thats why her stomach has increased. So now as per tatas instruction we are treating her in one local cancer specialist. Now he says that theres no chance of her survival.Please advise what to do now. Can her liver be transplanted?How much it can cost. Please advise other treatment if theres any. Please give me contact details of some hospitals.
[|AI|]  Hi, Thanks for writing in. I suppose your mother had a hepatocellular cancer in the liver and the doctors at TMH did a liver resection procedure. Liver resection is done for small tumors that can be managed operative. However, cancers of liver might reappear within months. A close watch is to be kept with post-operative screening done for her. It will help to take her to the Tata doctors and get an opinion after doing required testing on the present state of disease. You have written about the liver swelling up. This needs to be evaluated in detail and alternate treatments keeping in mind the survival of the patient must be started. Liver transplant is still in early stages in India, and it is not easy to find a transplant liver and this must be done only if the patient is fit to accept another liver. There are criteria for liver transplantation and cancer patients in advanced stage might not be physically fit to withstand and accept a new liver. The cost is around 20 lakhs rupees and even after surgery there is requirement of lifelong medicine and regular monitoring.