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asked by: mcfernandes on September 3rd, 2009

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my mother was recently diagnosed with cancer, she broke her femer nad doctors found that she has bone cancer, and cancer in lynthnotes,and also lung cancer what is the life expectancy for herat this point.

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Dr. Robert Wascher , MD

replied on September 4th, 2009

It is, unfortunately, impossible to predict how long any individual patient with cancer will survive. I tell my own patients with advanced cancer to take each new day as a gift, and to live their lives one day at a time.

I am sorry to hear of her illness, and hope that her doctors can help her.

Sincerely/ Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS

http://doctorwascher.com

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