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What Can Be The Prognosis After Grade 4 Urolethial Carcinoma?
hello,i am son of the patient.My father suffered from bladder cancer and prostate cancer.so he was done robot asisted radical cystectomy and radical prosatectomy with ileal conduct at 2011 jan last 2 months ago he noticed small lump in left axillary region and small lump in umbilical region.regular PSA result is normal, so ,he was done the CT scan by doctor.the result show lung and adrenal metastasis.the biopsy from axillary and adrenal show high grade invasive urolethial carcinoma,may be Grade 4.the oncologist plan to do chemotherapy on tomorrow.General condition is fair.My question is how about my father prognosis?
Mon, 26 May 2014
Your father has stage 4 bladder cancer. Stage 4 disease has poor prognosis with 5 year survival rate of only 15 %. Since cure is not possible, emphasis is on palliation of symptoms with chemotherapy mainly and radiation therapy (if required).
I hope I have answered your query. If you have any further questions in the course of your father's illness I will be more than happy to answer.
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