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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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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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