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What is the prognosis with stage 4 scc skin cancer with mets to lung bone brain and the cancer originated in the leg?
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Poor: It is unusual for skin cancer to go to brain, look around for a treatable second primary, probably a squamous lung cancer.
Answered 10/23/2017
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