how long could you live with colon cancer at stage 4? how can you cure spreaded colon cancer on a 31 year old?

Question

how long could you live with colon cancer at stage 4? how can you cure spreaded colon cancer on a 31 year old?

Answer 1

Know a former 30 something stage 4 breast cancer survivor---she is in her 50's now

Answer 2

There are some statistics here: http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=4022&order=363 I'm not posting them directly - if you are the patient, you need to decide if you really want to know the numbers. They are just that...numbers.

Some people will live much longer, but sadly some will be gone long before the average..

Only the medical personnel treating the patient and with the full information can give a realistic picture. And even they can not predict how an individual will react to the treatments available. You can't "cure" cancer...only make it stop growing and surgically remove it. Treatments will most likely include surgery and chemotherapy, and also radiation depending on where the tumours have spread.

Good luck to this 31 year old.

Answer 3

My aunt had colon cancer 2 years ago. She recently found out that it has spread to her lungs. She is in Stage 4. The doctors have told her that without treatment, she will die. With treatment, she has a 30-40% survival rate. There are several new experimental treatments for colon cancer that she has been looking into. One is called "CyberKnife." The other one is using stem cells. I know how scary this diagnosis is for you and your family. Don't give up. There are options.

Answer 4

Not really familiar with this disease, I will say, though, that if there's such a stage it means it is already pretty advanced. I should suppose that if upon talking to doctor (oncologist), he or she says it is okay to injest any of the following, since it won't interfere with medications, then by all means do so.

Those foods, whether vegetable or other, are known to help in the prevention of cancer as well as in helping in the cure:

Broccoli, brussel sprouts, turnip, cauliflower, kale (which is a form of cabbage).

GARLIC, ONIONS, LEEKS, SHALLOTS, and SHALLOTS, but especially garlic, since it works as an antibiotic among others.

One way I use garlic_which I've been using daily for nearly two years now and put in almost all foods, must be helping since in the city I live it seems EVERY SINGLE person is coughing, sneezing or have a full-blown cold or flu, and even when I ride the BUS a few times each day (something I dreaded before during this season because of the flu), well no one in my family THANKFULLY has gotten it. I put it into every SOUP, chicken and rice, pork, turkey_we all stopped eating red meat (beef) about eight years ago_I also cook as much vegetables as I can and I put smashed garlic on it as it cooks.

Tempted sometimes to just put in the cloves without smashing them because it's a bit time consuming removing the shells, husks or whatever it is called, I always end up smashing them with mortar and pestle.

This may be an exaggeration but ever since a family member of mine was mis-diagnosed two and a half years ago, and her COPD, CHF, attrial fibrillation, etc., had worsened by then, since doctors were seeing CANCER in her lungs, and it wasn't so even when the X-RAYS came back over and over with "something" on it....It's a LONG story!!!! But I took it upon myself that if it was cancer and because of her age not much could be done (she's in her 80's), I began using as much vegetables, less greasy, salty, sugary, foods, etc. as I could, and putting GARLIC in every meal.

I'm not talking about a few cloves like all cooking recipes recommend; I use ONE or TWO whole garlic bulb (head). If it's soup as well as chicken/rice dinner I'm making, or any large meal which has a lot of FISH or pork, I use THREE garlic bulbs! That way the substance of it all is cooked together almost since the beginning, and then I divide this broth into two meals; soup and the other.

One way or the other we've been eating garlic most of our lives_not in the extreme we're doing now_but something we did like a lot and don't do much now precisely because of the extra use I'm making of it, was to put a couple of garlic cloves whole or a bit smashed and some OLIVE OIL on top of bread and thus eat the garlic raw!!!! Back then my mom would do this to contain her blood pressure, and we absolutely loved it!!!

Down side of it is the "breath", but since we're talking about health here, best thing is to eat it RAW this or any other way, and just don't talk UP CLOSE to anyone. That way no one will be OFFENDED!!!!

Answer 5

no one can tell you how long you will live with any disease process, all that I can say is that if it is not treated, you will not live as long as you would if it were treated. Cancer that spreads from the primary site is said to have metastasized, and metastatic cancer is very difficult to treat, let alone cure, but they have had some luck prolonging life with chemotherapy and also with alternative therapies like turkey tail mushroom.

Answer 6

IT CAN DEPEND ON HOW YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF... MY DAD PASSED AWAY FROM COLON CANCER AT 61 AND HE HAD IT FOR 2 YRS.... IT MAY BEDIFFERENT FOR OTHERS... HE GOT INFECTION AND IT SPREAD TO HIS LIVER SO BECAREFUL... YOU CANT CURE CANCER PERIOD, YOU CAN REMOVE SOME OF IT, IT NEVER REALLY GOES AWAY OR BE IN REMIISION FOR AWHILE BUT ITS STILL THERE AND CAN COME BACK... IF THERE WAS A CURE MY DAD WOULD STILL BE HERE....

Answer 7

we are at the same problem only the difference is my cancer is endemetroid carcinoma stage3c.it has spread also and am having cycles of chemotheraphy....my prayers are with you,,,,,,i know its hard always pray and thank GOD everyday that we are still alive.we dont know how long we shall live it is only GOD who knows it.pray unceasingly...and receive JESUS CHRIST as your personal savior....GOD BLESS
NIKKA

Answer 8

only a medical professional can answer this. every case is different.