how many people survive lung cancer?
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My heart goes out to you and your sister.  People DO survive lung cancer.  Taking chemo is a tough decision to make, it can destroy the quality time you may have left IF  hers is NOT in a curable stage.  Most doctors WILL give honest answers IF the patients ASK:  Is my cancer curable?  What are my chances of surviving with surgery only?  What are my chances of surviving WITH and WITHOUT chemo? Or  WITH and WITHOUT radiation?\nShe might need you to go with her to ask these questions, (I encourage you to WRITE DOWN your questions, and let the doctor SEE you have a list of questions...) for the support, and so you can reaffirm what she was told.   An amazing number of people are unable to clearly remember and process the info they are given when the disease is life-threatening.  If you were with her, and later she can't quite recall the information, you could gentley help her work through the answers.\n Encourage her to get second opinions if she feels she needs more information.  Not EVERY form of cancer, not EVERY patient is good candidate for chemo.  Chemo can often cause more life ravaging consequences than the cancer itself.  I can understand her hesitancy in NOT jumping into chemotherapy.  Please do not let anyone make her feel like a "quitter" or guilty for NOT choosing chemo IF HERS IS not curable.  Perhaps she will choose to focus her fight on maintaining her dignity, independence, and quality of life as long as she is able to- IF HERS IS NOT IN A CURABLE STAGE.  \nSometimes radiation and other cancer treatments are given as a palliative measure, meaning it will not CURE the cancer, but hopefully if can keep the tumors from causing decreasing function of of organs in the chest, or from causing increased pain.\nIf it IS treatable, and if it IS a stage of cancer that will repond to surgery, chemo, and radiation, etc, it may make it easier for her to bear the treatments if she knows she DOES have a chance to survive.  She has a right to that information about her own particular stage of cancer before she makes the choice. Take care, I wish you both well.
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There is too much variability to make an intelligent answer to your question, I'm afraid.  With some drugs and some tumors, the death rate is almost the same as for a healthy person of the same age and gender.  With others, it's substantially higher.  Also, many of the regimens used now involve a complex mix of multiple drugs at assorted intervals.\n\nTo complicate things yet further, the answer differs for almost every sort of cancer.  Seminomas have a 95% or better survival rate at 5 and 10 years; other cancers, for example small cell carcinoma of the lung, have less than a three year median survival, last I checked (and I'm no specialist in the field)\n\nComplicating this even more, a lot depends on how advanced the cancer is when it is spotted.  If an adenocarcinoma of the colon is found on colonoscopy, and the polyp is removed with no evidence of spread, well, your outlook is a whole lot better than if the adenocarcinoma of the colon is discovered by spread to the elbow, and it's all over everywhere else, too.\n\nNo intention of being rude, but your question is comparable to asking how common it is for a mammal to die...  There is just too much variation to give an honest answer.
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There are more than 250,000 women 40 and under in the U.S. living with breast cancer, and over 11,500 young women will be diagnosed in the next year. My wife was diagnosed at 34.
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Finding the cure for cancer.
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I have skin cancer.\n\nMy nephew has retnoblastoma (lost one eye to cancer) (only affects babies/children under the age of 7). \n\nMy dad has skin cancer, and lung cancer. \n\nThey say everything goes in threes...for our family's sake, I hope that is true, and we are done without further incidents.
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If your children are to die of lungs cancer for being negatively smokers, will u keep in your work.\nAnother would be: do u like the picture of the horse (like in the advertisment of Marlboro) walking alone without his rider while the rider died with a lungs cancer?
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I am very scared!!! We had an article in our local paper a few weeks back about all the what ifs. I was very shaken by it. All the talks of millions dying and mass graves. Who wouldn't be scared. I have a son with asthma and they said the ones to die would be the elderly and ones with weakened lungs. I hope it never makes it here. It it does I already said I will shut up my house and my family will not leave. I will wear a mask to get fodd or thingsthat need to get done but my kids will not be casually infected.
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yes and a number of other things\nlike lung cancer\ncheck it out
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Had at least two friends who survived. Just do as the doctor says and PUT YOURSELF ON AS MANY PRAYER LISTS THAT YOU CAN. HAVE FRIENDS CALL OTHER FRIENDS AND HAVE THEM PUT YOU ON THEIR PRAYER LISTS. God bless you.
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I have heard of people living off of one lung, but your best bet would be to talk to the doctor at the hospital. He/She im sure would be more then glad to tell you everything you need to know... Hope he gets well soon!
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What a pleasure to hear from you.HAPPY BIRTHDAY x 67. Does that qualify. Truth we are in to this with lung cancer in my husband of 38 yrs. Untreatable, they gave him 3-6 mos. That was well over a yr. ago. he's no worse off now then when they found it. One stubborned dude. Each date that passes is a plus for us. 2nd Xmas coming up. 2nd birthday in Feb. & he lived to see a new grandson that had not been on radar back then. We take one day at a time. He had told me he did not want to spend what time he had left bitching & complaining. He wanted to live them just as we always had. So that is what our family does. Good luck, Hope you celebrate a few more.
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Well this is a loaded question. My mother passed away last Sept. from breast cancer that had metastasized to her lungs and esophagus. My father died two years ago from cancer also. Both did chemo and all it did was make their last days on earth awful. I had thyroid cancer last year. I personally will never do chemo. I sincerely think that in 20 years or so we will speak of how barbaric it was. If you are not too far advanced, I would say eating as healthy as you can, no meat or dairy. Alternative medicines and such would also be my choice. I think it is up to the individual though. You have to remember that doctors make money off of chemo and the like. Research, research research!!!
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I don't know.\n\nI can tell you this:  Lung cancer has one of the worst prognosis there is.  If the patient is still alive in 5 years after commencing therapy, even if they have been in a coma and are not expected to reawaken, that is called a success story, as long as they are cancer free.  That is a fact.\n\nYou should look into Gerson therapy, Budwig therapy, alkaline diet, filtering both drinking and bath water, raw 100percent vegan diet, hyperthermia treatments.  At the very least, you should research what the Burzynski clinic has to offer.  They do free clinical trials, and take some types of medical insurance.  They are more conventional than the other therapies I mention, but without the terrible damage and life threatening sickness caused by chemotherapy.  (Chemotherapy itself may kill more people than cancer.  Not many people know that, but chem is very dangerous.)\n\nBurzynski clinic has real doctors and nurses, and I have read many good thing about them.  Please, if you do not look into the other things I mention, then at least look into what Burzynski clinic has to offer.  Here is a link:\nhttp://www.cancermed.com/\n\nMay the Lord bless you both, and may you both have a peaceful eternity.
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Pancreatic cancer is fatal.  It is unknown the length of time one person has to live.  It depends on how fast it spreads and if it mets to any other part of the body.
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No as cancers go it is relatively rare
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Not a whole lot - there are estimated to be about 100,000 patients worldwide.  The northern VA share of that is likely to be just a dozen or so.  For more information contact the local support group.
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I have two little boys. My oldest who turned five in july was diagnosed with cancer in dec of 2004. He was only 4 years old. You never know how many children are battling cancer until you or someone that you know is going through it. These children are truely amazing. I do it for all of them. I want a world thats free of cancer. Especially for the children they dont deserve to go through that. They are way too precious to have to deal with it. That is why I do it for the children, for my children.