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Asked by cupcake94 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 14 Mar 2014.
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Anastasia Wass answered on 14 Mar 2014:
Advanced cancer is the stage of the disease. Advanced is a term normally used when the tumours very big or cells have spread around the body and might have started forming tumours elsewhere.
This is bad news as a bigger tumour makes it more likely cells can or will spread. Bigger tumours will also have more of an effect on how well the organ their in can work.
When cells spread around the body this is called metastasis. As we don’t know exactly where the cells have gone the only treatment for this is chemotherapy.
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Matthew Lam answered on 14 Mar 2014:
Yes, advanced cancer usually means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
At this stage, treatment is very difficult because the new tumours are often resistant to treatment and appear in places that are tough to operate on such as the brain.
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Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 14 Mar 2014:
Ana is right, referring to a cancer as being ‘advanced’ means it has changed and become more serious and sometimes that means it will have spread around the body. How advanced a cancer is can be described in more detail by doctors using a grading system, with grade 1 being the smaller, less advanced cancers and grade 4 being the most serious and widespread cancers. What grade a cancer is at when it is diagnosed affects what treatment a person is given: in general the higher grade the more serious and more difficult to treat a tumour is so more intensive treatment is given.
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Andrea Hanvey answered on 14 Mar 2014:
When cancer is advanced its spread to near by lymph nodes, blood vessels, perforated the organ of origin or spread into a body cavity. When cancer is advanced it makes it more difficult to treat successfully. Quite often if the cancer is so far advanced patients can only receive palliative care.
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cupcake94 commented on :
thank you all of you