Head and neck cancer life expectancy
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My father was just diagnosed with Stage IV non small cell lung cancer. It has spread to the lymph nodes on the right side and to his right adreanal gland. He has yet to start treatments. He's 55 years old and a smoker. His general health other than this cancer is good. What is the life expectancy if he doesn't do treatment vs. having treatment.
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The chemotherapy would have immediate and delayed effects. Some of the immediate side effects like nausea and vomiting already have fairly good medications to counter the adverse experience of treatment. The other symptoms such as fatigability still need much work (put another way, this is something the patient has to deal with). The best demonstration of the treatment working would be to identify some of the symptoms before.
He was having a really bad week this last week and we saw the doctor today. He has a 5 centimeter size tumor and all of the lymph nodes in the neck and chest area also have the cancer in them. He took very high doses of chemo all summer and the last petscan we did in sept. showed that the were no changes and it had actually spread to a couple of different places one being the scapulus. He has pretty much stopped eating and we can barely get any fluid in him.
I am looking for informed and correct informatoin about life expectantly, how to incresae life expectancy by making modreate and reasonable life style changes. Please advised as soon as possible. I am gathering research to inform mysefl of as fully as possible. I look forward to any information that may help me put this in perspective.
Mom also has survived cancer, and triple bypass, and has diabetes. What is the life expectancy once you reach the final stages of copd? Will it be the copd that finally takes, her or will it be another part of the body that fails? OH, and she is severly anemic due to a loss of iron somewhere in the body.
I am interested in finding out what is the average life expectancy of people having HBV?
I acquired the infection at an age of 29 years.....I am now 31 years old.....I am Hbeag -ve, Hbsag +ve, Anti Hbeag +ve, HBV load 3400 copies/ml
how bad does this look?
org/wiki/HIV#Prognosis quotes studies showing a life-time expectancy of as much as 50 years from infection.
There is undoubtly going to be great further advances in HIV treatment in the years to come. And some scientists haven't even given up on finding a functional cure or even drugs that would allow full erradication of HIV from the body.
I have a very close friend who was just diagnosed with either stage 3b or 4 squamous cell lung cancer. I am trying to find information about his life expectancy, in order to help family make plans. He is 58 yrs old and has asthma, sleep apnea, diabetes and is overweight. He was diagnosed by cancer cells removed from a pleural effusion of blood and fluid. They inserted 2 chest tubes to drain it, after 2 days one tube was removed because the fluid was greatly decreased; 1 tube remained.
It is not possible to put a time on someones life with heart disease. With illnesses like cancer it can be a bit easier in some cases. Research is continuing into heart disease day after day and new discoveries are being found all the time. It was only recently for example that a gene was discovered that is a culprit for causing heart disease. This gene was found in dogs, and was then found to exist the same in humans.
He has metastasis of lymph nodes and bones. The doctors have not given us any kind of life expectancy. Did anyone have experiences that can share with me about the patient's life expectancy under this kind of condition?
It depends on how healthy you stay. If you do all you can to keep weight down and take care of the diabetes. The diabetes is what you have to worry about. MS may not affect your life expectancy at all. When I was diagnosed with MS I decided I needed to reduce the chances of other disease so I cleaned up my diet, lost weight and started exercising. It was hard at first but I am glad I did it. Taking care of ourselves makes the difference with any illness.
I recently had a heart attack and had a stent put in. I've quit smoking, am very active and eat a pretty healthy diet and I'm 56 years old. How does my life expectancy compare to the "average"?
This discussion is related to <a href="/posts/Heart-Disease/Life-expectancy-after-heart-attack-and-stent-/show/1983202">Life expectancy after heart attack and stent </a>.
If you get cured before developing cirrhosis your liver will slowly regenerate itself once the virus is gone and your life expectancy should gradually return to somewhere near what it would have been without the virus. If one already has cirrhosis there is less certainty regarding regeneration, but at least the liver is no longer under attack and has a chance at becoming healthy again, although I think one will continue to carry a higher than normal risk of liver cancer.
I have read several websites who claim that Scoliosis decreases your life expectancy by 14.8 years, which all reference the same study. However, other websites, including wiki, claim that it has no effect on life expectancy and say that it is a myth. This is also backed up by a study done by Iowa University. Also, the study that claims that Scoliosis decreases your life by 14.8 years says that the patients were untreated.
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