how long do people with lung cancer live?
955043
Really sorry to hear about your Dad....It depends on the severity of the cancer and the treatments he recieves. \n\nAll the best !!
320034
Ok, here's the deal...\n\nWhen you smoke, the nicotin and another substances that tobacco contains mingle with the chemistry of your lung cells, changing their functions and live processes.\n\nWhen you smoke frequently, the chemistry in your cells is so tampered with, that they start multiplying like mad, obstructing the healthy lung cells.\n\nThat´s lung cancer.\n\nOh, and when you smoke, the lung cells also start to die, beyond repair, reducing your capcity of breathe, wich also reduces your lifespan. I know that for a fact that my granny died of that :-((.
614001
I have non small cell lung cancer - had surgery in Nov 05, just heard about cottage cheese and flaxseed oil and sent away for it.  As soon as it arrives I will be starting the regime.  I do not know anyone at this time with small cell lung cancer.
605476
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.
511680
Yes I do. They tell everyone that when you have skin cancer you will live longer if you get surgery and chemotherapy. I have not found that to be true. My aunt, uncle and a friend all had it and all died not long after getting those treatments. My dad has it too. He refused to get the treatments and is still living this very day and gets around just as good as he did back then. He has had it for 33 years.
859926
It varies among people.  If one follows the doctors protocol, and takes care of themselves they can do much better than those who do not.  I have Cystic Fibrosis and the average lifespan now is 35, yet I am 49 and raised my twins into adulthood.  I was told this disease would take my life before age 13, when I was only 8.  I have always followed Dr. orders, done breathing treatments taken medications, eaten right, and seen the Dr. when I start to have problems!  I live to tell others to hang in there and do your best to take care of yourself!  God is also a major part of my life and has truly blessed me!
74463
Some people smoke until they are 90 without any ill effects. Those people are in the minority. You have a pretty good chance of coming down with some smoking related illness if you smoke that long.
734994
Don't worry about the soreness.  That is muscular.  You probably do not have lung cancer if that's your concern.  Lung cancer is a long process of development and the average age to be diagnosed is 70's.  Congrats on quitting!  Keep it up and don't give up!  I'm a non-smoker myself, so enjoy every cleansing breath!  Go see a doctor if you are concerned.  Good luck and stick with it!
530637
Without treatment, small cell carcinoma of the lung has the most aggressive clinical course of any type of pulmonary tumor, with median survival from diagnosis of only 2 to 4 months. Compared with other cell types of lung cancer, small cell carcinoma has a greater tendency to be widely disseminated by the time of diagnosis, but is much more responsive to chemotherapy and irradiation.\n\nBecause of its propensity for distant metastases, localized forms of treatment, such as surgical resection or radiation therapy, rarely produce long-term survival.[1] With incorporation of current chemotherapy regimens into the treatment program, however, survival is unequivocally prolonged, with at least a 4- to 5-fold improvement in median survival compared with patients who are given no therapy. Furthermore, about 10% of the total population of patients remain free of disease over two years from the start of therapy, the time period during which most relapses occur. However, even these patients are at risk of dying from lung cancer (both small and non-small cell types). The overall survival at 5 years is 5% to 10%.\n\nAt the time of diagnosis, approximately 40% of patients with small cell carcinoma will have tumor confined to the hemithorax of origin, the mediastinum, or the supraclavicular lymph nodes. These patients are designated as having limited stage disease, and most 2-year disease-free survivors come from this group. In limited stage disease, median survival of 16 to 24 months with current forms of treatment can reasonably be expected.[5-7] A small proportion of patients with limited stage disease may benefit from surgery with or without adjuvant chemotherapy; these patients have an even better prognosis. Patients with tumor that has spread beyond the supraclavicular areas are said to have extensive stage disease and have a worse prognosis than patients with limited stage. Median survival of 6 to 12 months is reported with currently available therapy, but long-term disease-free survival is rare.\n\nThe pretreatment prognostic factors which consistently predict for prolonged survival include good performance status, female gender, and limited stage disease. Patients with involvement of the central nervous system or liver at the time of diagnosis have a significantly worse outcome. In general, patients who are confined to bed tolerate aggressive forms of treatment poorly, have increased morbidity, and rarely attain 2-year disease-free survival. However, patients with poor performance status can often derive significant palliative benefit and prolongation of survival from treatment.\n\nRegardless of stage, the current prognosis for patients with small cell lung cancer is unsatisfactory even though considerable improvements in diagnosis and therapy have been made over the past 10 to 15 years. Therefore, all patients with this type of cancer may appropriately be considered for inclusion in clinical trials at the time of diagnosis.
581459
my dad died of lung cancer.  The cancerous cells replaced the good ones and didnt do the job of the old ones.  Cancer kills because the organs affected stop working as their working cells are replaced.
545846
without dying you mean? depending on the person..maybe 2 weeks..maybe.
668393
the answer is 6-10 minutes if u are healthy, the question was how long u can LIVE not stay conscious. therefore the body organs and cells can last from 6-10 minutes.furthermore 4-6 minutes without minutes without breathing the cells begin to deteriorate, then 6-10 minutes without breathing the cells begin to die. u can only be resucitated after 10 minutes ONLY if your core temperature is well below normal hypothermic.
1060034
Sometimes treatment doesnt work. It didnt work on my dad, he passed away because of lung cancer.  But it did work for my mom, that is a breast cancer survivor.  So it's not up to us or the doctors who are the lucky ones that get to live.
667465
It depends on the severity of the disease. If the person who has the disease is experiencing symptoms like trouble swallowing, or speaking then this is the bulbar form. This form has the worst prognosis usually a person with the bulbar type lives 3 years.
562305
I'm not sure of the question because of the way you wrote it but I think you want to know how there body looks inside and out well lung cancer is caused by cancer cells basically dead cells that multiply the looks on the out side of the body is usually a more pale color due to the lack of oxygen in the blood system also on the inside of the body the patient most likely has enfezima which usually means there lungs fill up with flehm and there are no more hairs on there Bronci's to cough it up with and so they usually drown on there own flehm. I've seen hospitals pump up to a quart of flehm from a persons lungs a day so you see it can become pretty serious.\n    The lungs are devided into 3 sections The Bronci the Bronciol and the aviola ducts which are the small sack like objects at the deepest part of the lung they brake down the oxygen and allow it to oxygenate the blood in your system. lung cancer kills those aviola ducts so that they no longer are able to bring oxygen into the blood system without the aviola ducts you die.
163251
use commit, my grandpa is 80, he has ben smoking since he was 7 years old, back then it was legel and smoking wasn't bad for you.  he now has lung cancer and had to quite if he wanted to get rid of the cancer he has been using them for 2 days now and i don't think he has had a cigarette since then
484272
With well-differentiated astrocytomas, the symptoms may remain static or progress only slowly over a number of years, with a mean survival of more than 5 years. Eventually, however, patients usually have more rapid clinical deterioration that is generally correlated with the appearance of anaplastic features and more rapid growth of the tumor. The prognosis for patients with glioblastoma is very poor. With current treatment, consisting of resection when feasible together with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the mean length of survival after diagnosis is only 8 to 10 months; fewer than 10% of patients are alive after 2 years. Survival is substantially shorter in older patients.\n\n-random physician