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How long does a patient with agrressive troat cancer have to live?plus minus?

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Stage?: It is important to know what stage the throat cancer is. Most locally aggressive throat cancer can be treated with the goal of cure with either radiation and chemo or surgery. It is curable if still confined to the throat and neck lymph nodes.

Answered 9/28/2016

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