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Life expectancy?
My aunt age 49 has diabetes and now she got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer with brain, bone(ribs) and few lymph nodes in the abdomen.
She is going through chemo, 1 round done.
What is the prognosis, how long does she have?
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As such , we consider stage 4 disease (disease gone outside the primary site of origin ) , to have bad prognosis - but with the use of some of modern drugs that are available even in stage 4 lung cancer will have good 5 year survival.
For using this drugs your mother tumor should have some markers for it positive . If they are positive these new types of drugs called targeted therapy can give good results .
Please share the biopsy report , tumor markers test ( IHC) reports as well as the PET CT scan report . Only after considering all these I can give you a conclusive opinion .
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