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stage 4 cancer no treatment
A 37-year-old female asked:
Dr. Donald Colantino answered
61 years experience Internal Medicine
Preterminal: Unfortunately the patient appears to be preterminal with life expectancy predicted to be in days or weeks. Hospice care will ensure that pain and suff ... Read More
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A 58-year-old female asked:
Dr. Robert Moesinger answered
29 years experience General Surgery
Probably short.: Sadly, stage IV liver cancer is usually life-threatening within a few weeks or months. Also, I am guessing that she actually has stage IV cancer in h ... Read More
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Dr. Benjamin Kim answered
43 years experience General Surgery
Varies but not long: How long some one lives with stage IV liver cancer( hepatocellular cancer and not metastatic from other primary site) depends on the aggressiveness of ... Read More
A 36-year-old member asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Palliative care: Stage 4 cancer, by definition, is not curable. It would depend on the clinical situation, patient choice and expected response to treatment, wether to ... Read More
Dr. Lauren Stegman answered
27 years experience Radiation Oncology
Depends: Depends on type, but most often some sort of chemotherapy is used. Today there are many new "targeted therapies" that turn off specific things in the ... Read More
A female asked:
Dr. James Gasparich answered
46 years experience Urology
This : This depends on a number of factors. The grade of the tumor ( how malignant the cells are ), the stage of the tumor ( how deeply it is growing into t ... Read More
A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Aasim Sehbai answered
24 years experience Hematology and Oncology
Chemo limitation: Cancer cells or micrometastasis are unique cells which can continue to function and grow despite exposure to chemotherapy and radiation. Their dna ada ... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
Dr. Martin Rubenstein answered
45 years experience Hematology and Oncology
Need more info: Even with stage 4 head and neck cancers, some patient do survive. Survival depends in part on the site of origin. For nasopharynx cancers, the seer ... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Myron Arlen answered
64 years experience Surgical Oncology
Varied: A number of different approaches used depending on the nature of the tumor and the extent of spread. The main goal for solid tumors is reducing tumo ... Read More
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Site of origin: Primary cancer is the tumor that arises in the organ in question, whereas secondary cancer is one that arose somewhere else and spread to the organ i ... Read More
A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. Carlos Encarnacion answered
35 years experience Medical Oncology
Cancer of....?: Treatment and prognosis of stage 4 cancers depend on the kind of cancer and the general health. She should see an oncologist.
A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
What kind?: Almost any infection in a person with stage 4 cancer is bad, just that some are worse than others.
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