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Suggest Treatment For Bowel Cancer

My father has bowel cancer and liver cancer he has impallitive care visiting at home now. He is to fragile to have chemo any more, but he is putting on weight but his bowel movements are more frequent in the evening how long do you think he has for his journey here on this earth
Mon, 23 Mar 2015
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Hi,
Thanks for writing in to us.

Sorry to hear about the disease progress in your father. Cancer staging is important when evaluating treatment options. If your father has been told to be taken care of at home then it might be stage 4 bowel cancer. In this stage the survival of a patient can be 6 months to 2 years. It is important to know where the cancer has spread.

The survival can be increased by taking care of him better and helping him reduce the pain. Please give him adequate pain medicines and if he is unable to hake normal meals then providing small meals frequently might help. Please do not worry.
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Suggest Treatment For Bowel Cancer

Hi, Thanks for writing in to us. Sorry to hear about the disease progress in your father. Cancer staging is important when evaluating treatment options. If your father has been told to be taken care of at home then it might be stage 4 bowel cancer. In this stage the survival of a patient can be 6 months to 2 years. It is important to know where the cancer has spread. The survival can be increased by taking care of him better and helping him reduce the pain. Please give him adequate pain medicines and if he is unable to hake normal meals then providing small meals frequently might help. Please do not worry.