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What does incurable lung cancer mean? doctors said they cant treat it but can only control it. meaning? i am suffering from non small cell lung cancer

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Dr. Herman Hammerstead answered

Specializes in Trauma Surgery

Your going to die: of lung cancer. How long you have no one knows, but radiation and chemotherapy can extend that interval

Answered 4/23/2016

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