Showing posts with label stage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stage. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Chances of surviving the stage IIb lung cancer?

Suppose a person has stage IIb lung cancer. The person has had strong radiation and chemo therapy for the lung cancer. But the person has not had any surgery for it. The person still smokes over a pack of cigarettes a day. What are the persons chances of surviving the stage IIb lung cancer? And how long should the person expect to live? Any approximants would be fine.

The person has already survived 1 year 8 months after diagnosis. And 1 year 3 months after having chemo and radiation. The persons CT last week said no lung cancer.
The person is a 44 year old male.
Type of cancer was large cell Adenocarcinoma
At the time the chances of surviving more then one year were at 20%. Surviving more then five years was 5%. But the chances of the whole thing being made up was at 95%.

http://lungcancer.clinicahealth.com


Survival rate inoperable stage 3 lung cancer?

My 72-year-old grandmother has been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. The doctor says it is inoperable. She began radiation therapy this week (so far they have not said anything about chemo) she has been a smoker since the 1950's and is currently still smoking. What are her chances of survival.