![]() “Only time’s going to tell,” Hillman said. Then, doctors hope to reduce the size of the tumor so it can be removed or that he can live with it. He said the goal is to let his body heal from the harsh treatment that is needed to defeat the cancer. “They told me to go home for two or three months,” Hillman said. 1, and he returned to Powell a few days later. Hillman said he was told there was reason for optimism, since “all my liver functions are good.” Another TACE was performed on Oct. “I think I had every test there was,” he said. Hillman is now being treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he underwent numerous tests. Hillman said he didn’t accept that answer. He said he has been told the cancer is linked to an iron overload in his blood, something he has been aware of for 35 years.Īt the end of this summer, his doctors in Denver said they did not plan to do anymore treatments and advised him to return home and seek whatever care he wanted or needed to keep the cancer in remission. Hillman had it performed four times in Denver. Referring to a thick blue binder for the exact terminology, he said he is receiving hepatic angiogram with chemotherapy embolization, which is also referred to as transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, or TACE.Īccording to, the procedure “injects substances to try to block or reduce the blood flow to cancer cells in the liver.” It’s an outpatient procedure. The good news was, it had not metastasized, he said. It was too large to be surgically removed, Hillman was told. As a new patient, a full blood profile was run, he said, and he was told he had some kind of infection.įurther study, including a pair of CAT scans and an MRI determined he had a tumor about the size of a baseball or a grapefruit in his liver. Hillman learned he had cancer in February after a medical appointment in Billings, Mont. “I like my job and I like Powell,” he said. “And if I do, I fully intend to run for another term as mayor. “I hope I beat this cancer,” he said in an interview with the Powell Tribune at his City Hall office Tuesday. But Hillman said he aims to regain his health and continue to serve as mayor. Hillman, 72, has missed a few days of work and was not at the Oct. Mayor Don Hillman is fighting liver cancer.
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