Wednesday, March 24, 2010

stage 4 lung cancer is a tumor different than cancer

stage 4 lung cancer is a tumor different than cancer?
My friends mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and she is being very vague with her about the information she is giving about the cancer. she told her that she had the fluid drained from her lungs and there was no cancer cells in the fluid, but she says they doctors are more worried about the "tumor" than that actual cancer, so my question is, are the "tumor" and the "cancer" two different things? can you use layman's terms please? im medically illiterate
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1 :
Cancerous Tumour is a build up matter of cancerous cells. The Carcinogenesis evaluates great understanding of the formation of cancer. once the tumour was formed cancer cells seems to say as tumours until they spread (metathesis) by duplicating them self in other part of the organ. metathesis cancer or stage 4 cancer is a late stage and survival rate is low.
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The tumor is the cancer. Stage 4 means it has spread to a distant site and is not curable.
3 :
Nah something is missed in the translation there. The tumor is the cancer.
4 :
Stage 4 is the worst prognosis, in other words terminal, and probably not too long to live. Her mom is probably in some shock/denial as well as trying to put on a happy face and not worry your friend. She may want to seek out a support group at her local hospital for family of cancer patients and go to that .That will help her cope with this horrible diagnosis. Just stay by your friend and her mom and provide all the support that you can. Best Wishes
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As Denise DDS says, the words "cancer" and "tumor" mean the same thing in this case. People like to use the word "tumor" since it seems less scary than the word "cancer.' Cancer really means "malignant tumor(s)," but people often simply like to refer to it as tumor. If the diagnosis is correct, widespread stage IV lung malignancies are not considered curable. Only the small cell type of lung cancer responds well to chemotherapy for awhile. The majority of lung cancers are the non -small cell types which do not respond well to any of our many chemotherapy regimens. You friend's mom has the right to keep her medical information to herself. Her personal medical condition is no one's business except hers and who she wished to tell.

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