Submitted by BoundariesAreFun t3_yrvd7y in science
hurfery t1_ivzf2m7 wrote
Reply to comment by personAAA in Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies by BoundariesAreFun
Untreated cancer is 100% always a death sentence though, right?
personAAA t1_iw00vrt wrote
No.
For some cancers, better to just watch and wait than treat them. Don't take the therapy side effects for low grade cancer that is localizing, non to very slow spread, not impacting any function. Monitor the cancer to see if anything changes.
Cancer likelihood increases with age. For a really old patient, very possible to find with advanced imaging small cancers. Not worth treating and those are not going to kill the patient. They are low grade, not impacting function and more of we only founded it due to imaging. Patient is going to die from something else. Patient is going to die with cancer than from it.
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