Help Quinn Beat Cancer

Update:

Quinn is incredibly grateful for all the love and support he has received since his cancer diagnosis two and a half years ago. He has fought off cancer twice, but unfortunately, it keeps returning.

Currently, Quinn needs a liver transplant. He was on the Mayo Clinic's liver transplant list for four months but was recently removed due to small nodules of cancer that developed in his lungs. This news was a devastating blow, so he is now back on chemotherapy pills to combat the cancer.

This has been a long and challenging battle. Within just two and a half years, Quinn has undergone over 50 paracentesis procedures, more than 40 thoracentesis procedures, and multiple, substantial surgeries, infections, and other procedures, and been hospitalized over 30 times. On a weekly basis, he needs to have 2 to 6 liters of fluid drained from his abdomen.

However, there is hope: Quinn may be able to receive a transplant at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which would significantly improve his quality of life. UPMC recently evaluated Quinn to begin this process. His father, Peter, was also evaluated as a potential living donor to provide half of his liver. The transplant will require Quinn and his family to relocate to Pittsburgh for 6 weeks to 3 months while he recovers.

Please help make this possible for Quinn. Thank you once again for your love, prayers, and support!

Original Post:

Our nephew Quinn was diagnosed with stage 4a liver cancer on Sept 8, 2022. Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC for short) affects 1 in 5 million people.

Because of its rarity, there isn't a lot of info on it or how to treat it, and it doesn't typically get diagnosed until it's too late.

Quinn has gone to the ER 6 times in the past nine months and was finally correctly diagnosed after having a CT with contrast.

Quinn has multiple tumors in his liver. The largest one is 11 cm x 9 cm x 10 cm, roughly the size of a man's fist or a large grapefruit.

Treatment needs to happen quickly, as this type of cancer doesn't respond well to chemotherapy or radiation and is life-threatening once it's outside the liver. Treatment can include surgery, embolization, radiation, and chemo, with the end goal being an entire liver transplant.

Please feel free to share this and keep Quinn in your thoughts and prayers.

Thank you!