can aggressive cancer be cured?
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Advanced cancer that can't be cured, often still can be treated. The physical symptoms it causes almost always can be managed. At any stage of cancer, the treatment goal should be clear. You should know if the goal is to cure the cancer, slow its growth and help you live longer, or relieve symptoms.
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It can often be cured with surgery alone if all the abnormal tissue can be removed. If surgery isn't suitable, the vast majority of people with paediatric follicular lymphoma can be cured with chemotherapy. This type of follicular lymphoma does not usually relapse.
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Suffering through cancer chemotherapy is worth it -- when it helps patients live longer. But many patients end up with no real benefit from enduring chemo after surgical removal of a tumor. Going in, it's been hard to predict how much chemo will help prevent tumor recurrence or improve survival chances.
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Treatment for breast cancer will be successful for most people, and the risk of recurrence gets less as time goes on. Recurrence, unfortunately, can happen even many years after treatment, so no one can say with certainty that you're definitely cured.
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Although secondary bone cancer cannot be cured, treatment can reduce symptoms and improve quality of life. In some cases, treatment can keep secondary bone cancer under control for many years.
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Cancer of the bile duct can usually only be cured if cancerous cells haven't spread. If this is the case, some or all of the bile duct may be removed. Only a small proportion of bile duct cancer cases are diagnosed early enough to be suitable for surgery. This is because symptoms usually develop at a late stage.
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If not treated, tumors can grow, ulcerate, bleed and become infected and painful. That becomes a problem for the patient, the family and caregivers. I have found removal of these tumors to be safe and effective — and a relief to all. Dr.
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The chance of the chemotherapy curing your cancer depends on the type of cancer you have. Examples of cancers where chemotherapy works very well are testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. With some cancers, chemotherapy can't cure the cancer on its own. But it can help in combination with other types of treatment.
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Radiation therapy does not kill cancer cells right away. It takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged enough for cancer cells to die. Then, cancer cells keep dying for weeks or months after radiation therapy ends.
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Almost all will survive their prostate cancer for longer than five years -- and well beyond for many men. Men whose prostate cancer has spread to distant areas, like their bones. These men may need more aggressive treatment for their prostate cancer.
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In most cases surgery is unlikely to cure these cancers. But if there are only a few small areas of cancer spread (metastases) in the liver or lungs and they can be removed along with the colon cancer, surgery may help you live longer.
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Screening for lung cancer can save lives. As with many other cancers, a key to surviving lung cancer is catching it in its earliest stages, when it is most treatable. For patients who have small, early-stage lung cancer, the cure rate can be as high as 80% to 90%.
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Patients with stage II esophageal cancer can be treated with curative intent using either a primary surgical or a primary combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy approach. However, combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy is usually reserved for patients who are not able or do not wish to undergo major surgery.
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Hormone therapy won't cure your prostate cancer but it can keep it under control – often for several years – before more treatment is needed. However, over time, the behaviour of your cancer cells may change and your cancer could start to grow again.
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If it's detected early enough, treatment can cure bowel cancer and stop it coming back. Unfortunately, a complete cure is not always possible and there's sometimes a risk that the cancer could come back at a later stage. A cure is highly unlikely in more advanced cases that cannot be removed completely by surgery.
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Not all Stage 4 cancers are terminal (which means death is imminent - usually within 6 months) but your wife needs to be realistic as well as positive. Whatever you do, don't make promises you have no control over - this could backfire horribly especially given the sites you mention to which the cancer has spread.
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Stage IV NSCLC is widespread when it is diagnosed. Because these cancers have spread to distant parts of the body, they are very hard to cure. Treatment options depend on where and how far the cancer has spread, whether the cancer cells have certain gene or protein changes, and your overall health.