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Why doctors are not advising radiation for my father with buccal mucosa cancer, moderately differenciated, age 90 with angina.?
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Cancer: Are the doctors recommending hospice or palliative care? The doctors may feel that the treatment is worse than the disease at his age and medical status.
Answered 12/29/2012
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Multiple reasons: First off i would question the mds. I think that buccal mucosa cancer might be handled surgically. Your father's age, medical status and perhaps the extent and severity of the lesion itself may be the real reasons that they do not want to treat this aggressively.
Answered 8/1/2013
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