My mom was diagnosed w/ stage 4 colon cancer in May 2007 she went though 2 yrs of chemo and just recently under went radiation to a tumor that has broke through her skin. It is located in her abdomen and is coming out of her navel. Please tell me with your best guess how much time we have left with her. Her liver and lungs are clear no signs of cancer there. Thank you
life expectancy of someone with stage 4 colorectal cancer?
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Denisedds
March 8, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Statistics do not really help answer questions about an individual patient, but the 5 year survival rate is 5%. Your best information would come from her oncologist.
Messykatt
March 8, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Her oncologist is the best person to ask, because statistics with metastatic cancers aren’t very helpful. There’s always a range of prognoses, depending on the particular patients and how they’ve responded to chemo. If your mom is currently free of distant mets, this is obviously a good sign, but the onc is the one who would know best.