Yttrium-90 Radioembolization

Hi Davis,

My Mom had Y-90 treatments last July and September. No significant side effects except for fatigue. So far, so good…

I hope your Mom feels better.

Hello Daviscalifornia, wlecome to the best little club in the world that no one really
wants to join! I am sorry about your mother and while I cannot help with RE I know that others will come along with some answers. I do have a suggestion though that you repost under Introductions so that this post does not get lost in this different thread. Wishing her the very best and for yourself, please be strong! Also please keep us updated on her as we truly care.

Hi,
This is the doctor who talked about the Y90 in plain English that layman can understand. He is considered one of the top doctor in this field around the world,therefore experiences count a lot.
If you read what he said carefully, you will understand how he feels about this procedure when things was not going his way . He is not just want to perform the Y 90 procedure only; he is chasing and trying to improve the utility of this procedure for better results for liver and other tumors. And that is the difference of hearts among medical professionals.

http://www.io.northwestern.edu/patient-stories/doug-of-round-lake-beach-illinois/

God bless.

Hi Percy. Just wanted to remind you that my Lauren had Y-90 in May and the verdict is still out on how much it helped. She had it on the side of her liver that had some small tumors in hopes to get rid of them all so she could have a resection of her large tumor. She had a lot of chest pain after the procedure especially when she burped, but it eventually went away. She did develop a 4 cm. lesion after the procedure on the side that was treated and to this day they can’t tell if it is a tumor or a dead spot from the Y-90, thus the not knowing if it worked or not. She does only have 2 spots on that side of her liver instead of 5, so we are optimistic that it worked. Her large tumor is over 50% dead from chemo, so she is in a better place than she started out.

Hi,

We had three patients on this board who had radioembo during the last 6-8 months; and all of them had been passed away.
I ,at this point, will reserve my opinion on this interventional radiological treatment until I can learn more about it.
I knew one of them may be related to the leakage of Y90 into the lungsafter the radioembo.
The other one may be because of his pre-existed heart condition (pacemaker) and lung nodule(which had been wedgely removed), but his condition is stable(after liver resection and no CCA left as far as the last CT 6month prior(?)shows);he was on 6month of adjuvant chemotherapy of Gemzar after resection.
The third one I still don’t know for sure; He was actually had a 61% shrinkage of the tumors(one big one and a lot of the small ones.and he just want to to enjoy life more,he was 43 at that time?) ;but I suspected it was the side effects of panitumumab being mentioned quite often is pneumonitis ,pulmonary fibrosis and cough that causing him problems even after stopping the regimen for a month or so before the radioembo was performed.,but this is just my guess.
But 2 of them were on chemotherapy (GEMOX)+ targeted agents (EGFR inhibitor) before they were administered the Y-90 radioembo treatment. And it seems to support the observation that patients received cetuximab and the like before Y 90 treatment will have a shorter overal survival.
Two of them had stopped chemotherapy 10 days to 2weeks befor radiochemo which was recommended or ok by their doctors ; well short of the 4weeks recommended by others .

God bless.