Can you get a liver transplant if you have cancer?

Actually, it depends entirely on the size of the tumor and whether it has spread outside the liver. If it meets the standard criteria, a transplant is done, but the evaluation process takes a lot of time. Best to book an appointment with a transplant coordinator at a major hospital immediately to save time.

Aap himmat mat haariye. Humare padosi ke bade bhai ko bhi liver ki bimaari thi aur chota tumor tha, unka transplant sheher ke bade hospital mein badhiya se ho gaya tha. Bhagwan sab theek karenge, aap bas bade doctor sahab ki salah maaniye.

Yes, if it is Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and meets the Milan criteria, you can get a transplant. But if the cancer has metastasized to other organs, they won't perform it because of the immunosuppressant drugs you have to take after. Get a clear staging PET scan done first.

Transplant cost itself is very high, around 15 to 25 lakhs in private hospitals, plus the pre-transplant workup, CT scans, and cancer staging tests add up to another lakh or two. If you are planning this, check with government schemes or check if your corporate insurance covers organ transplants for cancer cases.

My uncle is going through a similar health scare and we are all so worried. Is the transplant process really complex when there is a tumor? If anyone here has gone through this, please tell me how long the waitlist generally is in India, we are panicking a lot.