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How advanced does lung/bronchial cancer have to be for it to be untreatable?
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Stage-4/refractory: Lung cancer is a bad cancer, yet it is treatable even when it is advanced to stage -4. But most such patient live only 12-18 months after which it is rarely treatable because we run out of treatment options like chemotherapy after 2 or 3 tries with different drugs. Experimental treatments may still be an option but you have to go to major cancer center for that exercise.
Answered 7/11/2013
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