Thursday, November 10, 2011

What is the prognosis for cancer?

Thursday, November 10, 2011
The prognosis (outcome) of cancer patients can range from excellent to poor. The forecast is right, both the type and stage of cancer are. For example, many skin cancer completely cured by the removal of skin cancer tissue, as well as a patient with a large tumor can be cured after surgery and other treatments such as chemotherapy (note that a cure is often used by many physicians as five defined-year period without recurrence of cancer). However, since the cancer either be or become aggressive, with metastases to the lymph nodes or other organs, the prognosis is reduced. For example, cancer, the higher figures in their production (eg, stage III or T3N2M1, see Staging section above) have a worse prognosis than those with low (or 0) numbers. How to increase the production numbers, worsens the prognosis.
There are many complications that can occur with cancer, many are specific to cancer type and stage, and are too numerous to list here. However, some common complications that can occur with cancer and its treatment protocols were as follows:

    
Fatigue (both cancer and treatments)


    
Anemia (both)


    
Loss of appetite (both)


    
Insomnia (both)


    
Hair loss (mainly treatments)


    
Nausea (both)


    
Lymphedema (both)


    
Pain (both)


    
Depression of the immune system (both)


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