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She was diagnosed with Colon Cancer.
Colon cancer has reached stage 4 after metastasizing to distant organs. The liver is often an area where the cancer tends to migrate per a National Cancer Institute's article noting 50% of cases.
Stage 4: it was in his liver.
Steatorrhea (fats in feces) does not appear during any stage of colon or rectal cancer. The obstruction is due to caner growths in the large intestine.
Yes, irinotecan is primarily indicated for advanced and metastatic colon cancer.
symtymps of first stage colon cancer
The survival rate depends on what stage your cancer is diagnosed in. For one, it is 74 percent, for stage four, it is 6 percent.
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Colon cancer that has spread to the spine is considered metastatic disease or stage IV cancer. The 5 year survival rate for stage IV colon cancer is 5%. This means that on average only 5% of people will live for 5 years with the disease.
should one who had a colonoscopy 6 yrs ago should now be diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer & be told that it is adenocarcinoma & not colorectal cancer
Stage I: the tumor is confined to the epithelium or has not penetrated through the first layer of muscle in the bowel wall.