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August 5th, 2008
I want to know if lung cancer stage 4 (or higher,I don't know) is curable at all or not.

Is Chemotherapy the only solution?
are there any kind of medicines or diets which reduce the size of tumours and destroy them in the end?

Is radiotherapy used for stage 4 and severe cases? or is it done along with chemotherapy?

one more question.... Excuse me! I'm kinda confused ! I've heard if there exist tumours in both lungs the possibility of having a blood cancer is very high! is that true?

The patient with lung cancer has no pain in any part of his body? Is it a good sign or not?

Thanks a lot


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replied August 6th, 2008
Lung Cancer Answer A4547
Stage IV lung cancer is practically incurable. At stage 4 the cancer has spread (metastasis) in distant organs (liver, brain, bones, etc.). Surgical treatment at stage 4 is out of the question and only chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be considered. Therapy at stage 4 is only palliative with no chances for healing.

There isn’t such a medical term as “blood cancer”. Cancer is a malignant tumor that originates from epithelial cells. Blood cells (red and white) are not epithelial so it isn’t logical to say “blood cancer”.


Malignant tumors of the blood cells are called leukemia and lymphoma. To be more precise, leukemia originates from the bone marrow where all blood cells are produced. Lymphomas can originate from the bone marrow and any lymph tissue outside the bone marrow (lien, lymph nodes, mucosal membranes, etc.


If you meant are the lung cancer’s cells present in the blood they are called metastases.

Pain is not a parameter for estimating the stage and the prognosis of the malignant disease.



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