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How long is someone with bone cancer expected to live?
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Cancer that has: Metastasized to bones commonly indicates that the disease cannot be cured, but survival depnds more on the source of primary. Those from breast or prostate can be quite lone --years even, but lung, kidney, melanoma is quite short.
Answered 11/20/2012
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