Well.......to put it short... My uncle is about 73 years old and he has a high lung cancer. If there a rating between 1 to 10, it's level 8. He was smoking since age 14 and hide from telling his cancer problems for at least 7 until just recencly...so that was expected. Is there anyway to at least make the cancer stationary, reverse, or to counter the effect completely?
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As the family member of lung cancer sufferers, if the doctors have not offered any other advice - there may be no others. Sad to say but something such as this is the only real time that most tobacco users finally pay attention - once the damage is big time done. Thanks for caring! Just use this example to your friends and family as the whynotto reason for their own addictions.
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depends on whether it has spread to other organs or to his lymph nodes. if not it can be cut out, if so it is almost impossible to cure. chemo and radiation can help make his life longer. make sure he follows up with his doc and sees an oncologist.
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Lung carcinoma is a malignant lung tumor usually categorized as small cell or non–small cell. Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor for most types. Symptoms include cough, chest discomfort, and, less commonly, hemoptysis, but many patients are asymptomatic and some present with metastatic disease. Diagnosis is suspected by chest x-ray or CT scan and confirmed by biopsy. Treatment is with surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy. Despite advances in treatment, the prognosis is poor, and attention is focused on early detection and prevention. Worldwide, the 5 most common types of cancer that kill men are (in order of frequency): lung, stomach, liver, colorectal and oesophagus. Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world. A third of cancers could be cured if detected early and treated adequately. 40% of cancer could be prevented, mainly by not using tobacco, having a healthy diet, being physically active and preventing infections that may cause cancer. Please see the web pages for more details on Lung cancer.
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This same thing is happening to my Dad and he never smoked. They can give him radiation to treat the pain in some spots and the spread of other spots with about a 50% chance of helping with either. He can take chemo to make the tumors smaller and maybe buy him some time. Do you know what kind of lung cancer? What organs has it spread to? There are 4 stages of lung cancer with 4 being the worse. My Dad was a stage 4 at th time of diagnosis at Thanksgiving and I'm not sure he will live long enough to see the superbowl. The decline is so rapid. There is no cure for lung cancer and the treatment is often worse than the disease. He should make his final plans and get his comfort issues resolved. Goos luck---I empathize with you completely.
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I know of the worlds top Oncologist specializing in Lung Cancer, and Kidney Cancer his name is Dr. Robert Figlin he is at City of Hope Hospital maybe you can get more info online or a consult to see him. He used to be at UCLA. Go to Google or City of Hope website. Good luck to you.
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it depends on if it is non small cell lung cancer or small cell lung cancer nsclc have a better chance of chemo/treatments working sclc have a life expectely of 4mo to 12 mo. they can live longer my husband lived 18mo. i wish u luck
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