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What happens if testicular cancer spreads to lungs and liver?
Whats the treatment if any?
Chance of survival?
For a 17 year old boy.

hope a good specialist in the field is looking after the boy.

Since it has spread to distant organs treatment has to be fast and intensive with a multi-pronged approach of drugs, radiotherapy and surgery as well.

u pl get pronto to the best specialist u can get and and do not delay treatment.
survival depends on the type of cancer, extent of spread and response to treatment.

wish the boy all the best.

I have an inlaw that underwent a recurring surgery to have his colon removed. His cancer has spreaded to his liver.

"Panda" is the top answerer in this category, but I have to
disagree with her statement that "stage IV disease . . . means that it will be more difficult to treat and take longer than a stage 1 .. that’s all." Colon cancer metastatic to the liver is not likely to be cured in any medical center.

Chemotherapy is usually given to buy some time – often in terms of extra months rather than many years. The chemotherapy given for colon carcinoma is usually better tolerated than more aggressive regimens used for other types of cancer.

I have had some patients tolerate 5FU based chemo regimens well enough to work if they wanted to – usually they did not. Often it is the advancing malignancy in the liver that leads to weakness and weight loss plus lack of energy and decreased activity level.

Added note re: Lola’s answer (which is otherwise fine) – I’ve never heard a stage "five" cancer. Stage four means the cancer has spread to distant areas – such as the liver in this case. There is no stage beyond stage four.
And stage does refer to the malignant disease – not to the treatment – though the treatment is tailored to the stage of the disease. These are small points.

What you want to know is that the treatment is usually not very rough. If your family member is in good shape, he may have some good quality time left. If there is truly significant liver involvement, many years of survival would be unusual.

Survival does vary with the level of involvement. The National Cancer Institute indicates that people with three or fewer lesions in the liver can do better.for longer periods — perhaps 25% survival at five years compared to less than 5% survival at five years for more extensive liver involvement

Correcting myself – Lola is correct. If you count stage 0, there are five stages – - but stage four is the last stage.

Also – of course no doctor is God and no one can say when someone will die. We can only provide information about the usual outcomes based on previous people. I did not use the word "terminal" in my cancer specialty medicine practice. All of us are terminal. There are always people who do better than average.

Two months after a colectomy,my mom recently had a brain scan which showed 2 nodules in the left parietal lobe.The doctors have ruled out TB and toxoplasmosis.Her doctor says that colon cancer can not spread to her brain without affecting the liver.Is that True?

First of all, good luck to you and your mother in what must be a very difficult time. Your mothers’ doctor was correct. The way cancer spreads is that cancerous cells break off from the main tumor and spread via the bloodstream. The entirety of your blood volume is filtered through your liver before returning to the rest of the body; therefore, it is virtually impossible for foreign matter such as cancerous cells to pass through the liver without being trapped. I hope this clarifies things for you.

To Denisedd: To be sure, where serious health conditions such as this are involved a second opinion is always a good idea, and you make a good point that cancer certainly is an unpredictable disease. In trying to simplify things for the poster, I evidently left out too much information. GENERALLY SPEAKING you are correct… cancer does not ALWAYS met. to the liver. Things such as type of cancer, blood flow/routes to the involved region, co morbidity, and other factors come into play which can cause other organs to be involved while leaving the liver relatively intact…. but the doctor said "affect the liver", not "met. to the liver" it is perfectly reasonable to expect some affect on the liver, even if it does not actually become cancerous…. if half the circulation through the liver is cut off by sloughed off cells, that would certainly be enough to "affect" the liver, don’t you think? …although I suppose a better choice of words would have been "it is highly unlikely that colon cancer would…" as opposed to "colon cancer can not…" At any rate, the doctor has access to her chart and the weeks, months, or year’s worth of information contained therein… and all we have to go on is a single paragraph. It’s actually a bit presumptuous for us to say one way or another whether he’s right or wrong.

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my boyfriend has 4th stage colon cancer. They removed some of the colon. they now say both lobes of his liver have cancer spots and they are concerned about a spot on his lung.

As colon cancer progresses from Stage 0 to Stage IV, the cancer cells grow through the layers of the colon wall and spread to lymph nodes and other organs.

Stage 0 (Carcinoma in Situ)
In stage 0, abnormal cells are found in the innermost lining of the colon. These abnormal cells may become cancer and spread into nearby normal tissue. Stage 0 is also called carcinoma in situ.
Stage I
In stage I, cancer has formed and spread beyond the innermost tissue layer of the colon wall to the middle layers. Stage I colon cancer is sometimes called Dukes A colon cancer.
Stage II
Stage II colon cancer is divided into stage IIA and stage IIB.
Stage IIA: Cancer has spread beyond the middle tissue layers of the colon wall or has spread to nearby tissues around the colon or rectum.
Stage IIB: Cancer has spread beyond the colon wall into nearby organs and/or through the peritoneum.
Stage II colon cancer is sometimes called Dukes B colon cancer.

Stage III
Stage III colon cancer is divided into stage IIIA, stage IIIB, and stage IIIC.

Stage IIIA: Cancer has spread from the innermost tissue layer of the colon wall to the middle layers and has spread to as many as 3 lymph nodes.
Stage IIIB: Cancer has spread to as many as 3 nearby lymph nodes and has spread:
beyond the middle tissue layers of the colon wall; or to nearby tissues around the colon or rectum; or
beyond the colon wall into nearby organs and/or through the peritoneum.
Stage IIIC: Cancer has spread to 4 or more nearby lymph nodes and has spread:
to or beyond the middle tissue layers of the colon wall; or to nearby tissues around the colon or rectum; or to nearby organs and/or through the peritoneum.
Stage III colon cancer is sometimes called Dukes C colon cancer.

Stage IV
In stage IV, cancer may have spread to nearby lymph nodes and has spread to other parts of the body, such as the liver or lungs. Stage IV colon cancer is sometimes called Dukes D colon cancer.

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