What Is the Life Expectancy of a Patient With Stage 4 Cancer?
Last Updated Apr 3, 2020 3:05:03 PM ET
There are many variables that determine life expectancy of a cancer patient, such as type of cancer, location of tumors, age, sex and other complications. An oncologist is a doctor who specializes in cancer treatment and can make a prognosis for an individual cancer patient according to his specific circumstances.
Stage 4 cancer is the stage where cancer has spread to distant organs and is also known as metastatic cancer. Stage 4 cancer is typically not curable but there are treatments available and improvements in cancer treatments are being made constantly that increase the survival rate for patients with late-stage cancer.
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