Metastatic Liver Cancer | Pancreatic cancer survival rate

Pancreatic cancer survival rate

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For cancer patients where their cancerous tumors can be surgically removed, some patients are cured.

I say some, because in the most positive outcome that my father could have been given a complete new liver, since he had metastatic liver cancer with an unknown primary, again one day this primary cancer would most likely infect his liver again. There is unfortunately no prove for this. Maybe the cancer would have affected his new liver only in 10 years from now, and father still would have lived another 10 years!

Yes: the survival prospects for each patient vary depending on the stage and condition of the patient. However in any cancer case: cure rates are significantly less than 50%. Chemotherapy and radiation are usually given to increase the cure rate after surgery.

If however, the tumor cannot be removed completely by surgery and has spread beyond the pancreas to the surrounding tissues and organs, cure is then not possible. The average survival rate is generally less than 12 months.

Pancreatic cancer survival rate

Pancreatic cancer is generally rarely curable. Steve Jobs is the exception to the rule!

The overall survival rate is less than 4%.

Cure rates are highest, although still usually under 25% if the tumor is less than 2cm in diameter and is localized in the pancreas. But unfortunately such cases account only for fewer than 2% of all cases of pancreatic cancer.

For patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, the overall survival rate is less than 1 % at 5 years with most patients dying within 12 months.

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  1. Metastatic liver cancer » Pancreatic Cancer Walk on September 17th, 2007 12:17 am

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