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Stage IV cancer indicates a significantly advanced and sometimes spread-out cancer. Survival is highly limited in the frist place; chemotherapy might have some chance, but this is much reduced from for example a Stage I or Stage II.
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∙ 10y agoit depends how much you've got to fight for.
Sorry but that is an awfully pessimistic and almost sadistic answer. Any cancer , in any stage can be fought. It really depends on the expected outcome of treatment. Of course everyone wants the treatment to bring remission.But in reality, that isn't the most successful option. The options are to try to either have supportive care to help the patients have some quality of life, or a possibly curative course of treatment. All cancers are different just like all patients with the same type of cancer are. They respond differently. A 70 year old man with Leukemia may respond extremely well to his chemo when a 30 year old with the same type may succumb to his disease in short order. We are all different and that is one reason why a cure for all cancer has alluded the medical community.
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