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Has Tongue Cancer, Unable To Speak, Eat Or Take Fluids. Life Expectancy?
my mother has been put on a syringe drive on monday she had bad day on tuesday and 2 days of where she was sitting up very much alive today she has not hardly woke up. she has tongue cancer and the tumour is preventing her from speaking or eating ot taking fluids will it be long before she passes away we have been told it could be anytime from 1 days to a couple of weeks but can she eally last this long when she is so ill
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Tue, 12 Nov 2013
Hi, it is very difficult to predict the time of death but from your description is seems that your mother is on palliative care for cancer tongue. In palliative care, the symptomatic care is given so as to minimize the agony of the patient. Predicting the time of death is not possible really. Just the time till death should be minimally agonizing. Regards
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