A 42-year-old member asked:
Can stage four cancer develop in three months?
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Dr. Jefferson Chenanswered
Neurosurgery 36 years experience
Yes: Certainly, for the brain this can develop. If a person has a lower stage cancer, for example of the lung or breast, once it has gone to the brain, it by definition is stage 4. This can evolve very rapidly and certainly within 3 months.
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A 50-year-old member asked:
What are the differences in stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 cancer?
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Dr. Carlos Encarnacionanswered
Medical Oncology 37 years experience
Depends: The stage of most cancers is determined by 3 factors. T: characteristics of the tumor itself (size, depth, etc), N: involvement of local lymph nodes, and M: metastases (distant spread). These combine in different ways to determine staging, depending on the tumor type. Certain cancer types have other ways to be staged.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
What are symptoms of stage four cancer?
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Dr. Ed Friedlanderanswered
Pathology 46 years experience
Depends: Each common cancer has a staging system depending on how far it has spread, and in turn, the symptoms depend on exactly where the tumor has spread and what it's doing. There's no telling. A stage IV lung cancer in the liver will behave much differently than a stage IV lung cancer in the chest wall.
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