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Dear dr, my father in law got detected by liver cancer, and it is in fourth stage, i want know that any possible chance to servive.
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Metastatic liver ca: Stage IV cancer is also known as metastatic disease which means it is spread outside of the organ in which it started. Unfortunately metastatic hepatcellular cancer (liver cancer) is not curable.
Answered 7/19/2015
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