This procedure can be performed in addition to chemotherapy, radiation therapy or other therapies that are ongoing to treat the primary cancer often allowing the patient the tolerance to continue their therapy.
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If the metastatic cancer appears first in the lower part of the body, the primary cancer is more likely to be at sites below the diaphragm, such as the pancreas and liver.
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As primary cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy have become more effective in the past few decades, people with cancer are living longer after initial treatment than ever before.
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Before the metastasis, she had about a 45 to 55 percent chance of surviving 10 years or more, according to her primary cancer doctor, Dr . Lowell Schnipper of Beth Israel Hospital.
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A few years after the surgery, the patient developed to another site of renal cell carcinoma . do you think it was mets from old site or it was a new primary cancer?
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One patient died of sepsis ( infection in the bloodstream ) due to urine leakage at the anastomosis, one died after a heart attack, and three died from metastasis of their primary cancer.
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He defined the necessary criteria for a genetic cancer : early age of onset of the disease, specific pattern of multiple primary cancers, and Mendelian patterns of inheritance in hundreds of extended families worldwide.
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Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than the HIV virus, and can cause primary cancer of the liver or liver failure in chronic cases, which comprise about 10 percent of all hepatitis B infections.
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"People who have their primary cancers removed live in a state of uncertainty, " said Dr . Lawrence Shulman, the chief medical officer at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, who was not directly involved in the study.
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"The incidence of brain metastases is increasing as the treatment of the primary cancers improves, " said Dr . Mark Gilbert, neuro-oncologist at Houston's M . D . Anderson Cancer Center, and one of the teleconference presenters.
