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Stage 4 stomach cancer survival rate?
What is the survival rate of STAGE 4 stomach cancer that spread to multiple lymph nodes and organs surrounding the stomach?
CHEMOTHERAPY KILL cancer cells or just SHRINK them?
Chemotherapy treatment for STAGE 4 stomach cancer help patient to live longer or it can actually "CURE" the patient?
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- MattLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
For Stage IV (distal metastases), the 5 year survival rate is about 4%.
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/stomach.html
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/stomachcancer/overvie...
But if the metastases are localized, it can be 30%.
Chemotherapy kills individual cancer cells, reducing the number of active cancer cells in a tumor, thereby shrinking the tumor.
Depending on how the patient reacts, chemotherapy (probably in conjunction with surgery and radiation) may extend the patients life and may actually cure the patient.
