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What Is The Prognosis Of Stage-4 Colon Cancer With Liver Metastases?
My loved one (age 51) has colon cancer mets to liver. just diagnosed after having painful symptoms, a colonoscopy and liver biopsy. he is receiving chemo. since there is no cure, what is the likely prognosis? I have no reports or images to provide. In addition to chemo, would you recommend any naturopathic medicine? even medical marijuana if pain was not relieved? YYYY@YYYY
Thu, 2 Nov 2017
The prognosis for colon cancer has improved over the years with targeted agents. Even in stage 4, with good response to chemotherapy, surgery can be attempted. both lesions in colon and liver can be resected. Median survival is around 2to 3years.
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Median survival in stage 4colon cancer is around 2 to 3 years. In case of good response to chemo, surgery can be attempted to resect both the primary and liver metastasis , if metastatic sites are resectable.
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