What is the chances of living with a stage 4 lung cancer?

Answer 1

Survival rate of Stage IV is much lower chance of surviving. Cancer survival rates refer to the percentage of patients affected with certain form of cancer. The survival rate of colon cancer patients five years. In this stage may be depend on different factors, whether the cancer has been spread overall his organs, or certain parts. As I mentioned above the survival rate is stated as the percentage of the patients who will probably live up to 5years after diagnosis on research on patients with the same type and stage of cancer.

Answer 2

The chances of living with a Stage IV diagnosis are better now than ever. When you find the right treatment for your type you can shrink tumors and take meds and monitor your condition like any other chronic disease. Lots of people are living with late stage lung cancer and managing it and living good lives. Some are suffering more from the side effects of their medications than from their disease. Some will live a decade and some a few months. Everyone has to live one day at a time.

Since the mapping of the human genome the treatments and approaches to lung cancer have changed dramatically! The most recent statistics are obsolete. Depending on your age and overall health you can very probably live five years where past statistics said only one. And during that five years it is realistic to expect that new treatments and trials will be made available and could cure you.

Dont give up hope!

Answer 3

Lung cancer can be already at stage 4 when it is discovered.

Lung cancer sometimes spreads very rapidly. It is called stage 4 when tumor cells are present in the chest and in other parts of the body.

Answer 4

Cancer statistics often use an overall five-year survival rate. For instance, the overall five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 98 percent. That means that of all men diagnosed with prostate cancer, 98 of every 100 were living five years after diagnosis. Conversely, two out of every 100 died of prostate cancer within five years.

Cancer survival rates are based on research that comes from information gathered on hundreds or thousands of people with cancer. An overall survival rate includes people of all ages and health conditions diagnosed with your cancer, including those diagnosed very early and those diagnosed very late.

Overall survival rates don't specify whether cancer survivors are still undergoing treatment at five years or if they've become cancer-free (achieved remission). Other types of survival rates that give more specific information include:

• Disease-free survival rate. This is the number of people with cancer who achieve remission. That means they no longer have signs of cancer in their bodies.
• Progression-free survival rate. This is the number of people who still have cancer, but their disease isn't progressing. This includes people who may have had some success with treatment, but their cancer hasn't disappeared completely.

Answer 5

A whole lot better than they used to be. But much still depends on exactly where the tumors are, how big they are, and so on. Averages won't tell you as much as your doctor can.