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What Will Be The Life Span For A Stage 4 Bile Duct Cancer Patient?
my mother is 61 and has stage 4 bile duct cancer. The klatskin tumor is not operable. she has orange urine, pale stools, vomiting, severpain on rightside below ribs,and exaustion. Can you please give us a geuss of how long she may have left. She has a bucket list of things to do and we want to get alot of it done .
Mon, 2 Jun 2014
The 5-year survival rate is only 2% for stage 4 bile duct cancer.
The aim of treatment now should be basic supportive care along with palliative chemotherapy to improve her quality of life and control her tumour size from increasing.
Regards
DR De
The aim of treatment now should be basic supportive care along with palliative chemotherapy to improve her quality of life and control her tumour size from increasing.
Regards
DR De
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