My father has high speed metastatic cancer that has invaded his liver. He was taken off chemotherapy for a few weeks due to an infection that developed while his immune system was low. He has 2-4 weeks of life left because the cancer grew so fast that it took over most of the liver and started obstructing blood flow to the liver.

I looked into live-donor liver transplantation, which is done in Arizona and Minnesota. As I am his son, I would be willing to donate a generous portion of my still young and healthy liver in order to try and save his life.

My uncle (who is in charge of his medical care) stated that his doctors considered liver section removal and regeneration but due to the nature of his cancer it would just invade whatever part regenerated quickly.

I'm a biochemistry student so I'm not completely aloof in this discussion. In my mind, that makes sense for his own liver trying to regenerate whilst cancer is present, since it would basically be "at the gates" of each regenerating portion of his liver. But what if some or most of his cancerous liver was removed and a generous section of my healthy liver was introduced instead, and he was then reintroduced to chemotherapy as quickly as possibly to combat the spread of the cancer to the healthy portions of the liver?

Could this allow that part of the liver to regenerate quickly enough to make the chemo treatments more effective, and could this give him a shot at defeating this cancer? Or is his situation too far gone for this to be an option.

Thank you,

CCM