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What Causes Tumors All Over Body And Is It Curable?
I have a cousin in Austin, Texas 60 years old who has tumors throughout his body could we inject certain tumors with viruses to allow the body to fight the tumors? Duke has done this, but not multiple sites like this . His prognosis is Death, if he doesn t try something. Is there any place in this world that we can fly him to possibly get treated with treatments not allowed in this country that have success. He wants to live.
Wed, 20 May 2015
Hello and welcome.
Inam guessing he has cancer and not just simple benign rumors. With the current description I am guessing his cancer is in its terminal stage with metastasis to multiple sites around the body.
The problem with treating these sites is that no virus or medication can cause them to die off, chemo therapy and radiotherapy can help slow down their progression and even reduce their size to a certain extent, but this too cannot result in the complete elimination of the cancer.
Surgery is an option only when there are a few sites which can be excised and then followed by chemo and radiotherapy.
But with multiple sites like a Dukes, by the time we operate and remove a few there will be numerous others developing. At this point he cannot take surgery so many number of times. I am afraid there is no solution to this, my sincere apologies.
Best wishes.
Inam guessing he has cancer and not just simple benign rumors. With the current description I am guessing his cancer is in its terminal stage with metastasis to multiple sites around the body.
The problem with treating these sites is that no virus or medication can cause them to die off, chemo therapy and radiotherapy can help slow down their progression and even reduce their size to a certain extent, but this too cannot result in the complete elimination of the cancer.
Surgery is an option only when there are a few sites which can be excised and then followed by chemo and radiotherapy.
But with multiple sites like a Dukes, by the time we operate and remove a few there will be numerous others developing. At this point he cannot take surgery so many number of times. I am afraid there is no solution to this, my sincere apologies.
Best wishes.
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