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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:29 am |
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My father is 70 and he is fighting is second colorectal cancer. The
first one was surgically removed 2-3 years ago, but a second tumor
rapidly appeared. He has gone through radiotherapy and chemiotherapy
for the past 18 months or so, and he has a tumor which doctors cannot
remove because it is "too invasive" and the operation would likely
kill him. Chemiotherapy has apparently reduced slightly the size of
the tumor, but it still cannot be removed surgically. Doctors
continue to provide him with "short" chemiotherapy sessions (6-8
weeks) with scans and blood samples in-between, but they never made
any statement about a possible outlook. Sure, it is not a an exact
science. Nevertheless I don't expect him to go through chemiotherapy
for another 10 years.
I tried to find statistics about the life expectancy of someone with a
"non-removable" colon tumor (whatever what stage this is, we've never
been told) but could not find anything on the subject. If anyone has
links to point to or similar stories, please let me know. thanks.
Paul |
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| Steph |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:30 am |
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<paul_silverman@mail.com> wrote in message
news:81c2fa4f-9955-4288-b437-d6a25e7dbfc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
Quote: My father is 70 and he is fighting is second colorectal cancer. The
first one was surgically removed 2-3 years ago, but a second tumor
rapidly appeared. He has gone through radiotherapy and chemiotherapy
for the past 18 months or so, and he has a tumor which doctors cannot
remove because it is "too invasive" and the operation would likely
kill him. Chemiotherapy has apparently reduced slightly the size of
the tumor, but it still cannot be removed surgically. Doctors
continue to provide him with "short" chemiotherapy sessions (6-8
weeks) with scans and blood samples in-between, but they never made
any statement about a possible outlook. Sure, it is not a an exact
science. Nevertheless I don't expect him to go through chemiotherapy
for another 10 years.
I tried to find statistics about the life expectancy of someone with a
"non-removable" colon tumor (whatever what stage this is, we've never
been told) but could not find anything on the subject. If anyone has
links to point to or similar stories, please let me know. thanks.
Paul
For patients with a rectal cancer not treated surgically, about 1/3rd of
patients are alive at 5 years. 2/3rds of those are alive with evidence of
disease.
If your father's cancer is recurrent disease, these figures do not apply,
as median survival is about 18 months in those circumstances. Median is
median, however. 50% of people do better, 50% worse. |
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