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How Long Can A Liver Tumour Patient On Palliative Care, Survive?

A friend who had stomach cancer was treated with chemo and was in remission. Later it spread to his liver and he also had jaundice. He now has a tumour on the liver and one appearing on his neck and the hospital has withdrawn all treatment and recommended palliative care. How long will he be able to survive....
Mon, 5 Oct 2015
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Hi,Sorry to hear about your friend.To me it looks like a advance stage of ca stomach with metastasis to liver.Ca stomach with metastasis has very poor prognosis even with best possible treatment and survival depends upon patient to patient may be 3-6 months
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How Long Can A Liver Tumour Patient On Palliative Care, Survive?

Hi,Sorry to hear about your friend.To me it looks like a advance stage of ca stomach with metastasis to liver.Ca stomach with metastasis has very poor prognosis even with best possible treatment and survival depends upon patient to patient may be 3-6 months Thanks