What is the life expectancy in cancer?

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Welcome to icliniq.com. We are here to help you, and I am really sorry to hear about his state. The description given by you, along with the x-ray findings, supports the diagnosis of lung cancer. Although tuberculosis is a possibility, it is less likely. Hoarseness of voice is a symptom of mass compression caused by a lung mass. Therefore, my strong recommendation would be to go for a CT scan of the chest as soon as possible, along with FNAC (fine needle aspiration cytology) of the mass to confirm the diagnosis and initiate treatment.

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• Chest pain and breathlessness are a part of this problem. Only as the mass compresses the chest causing chest pain and the area of chest expansion is decreased as a result of mass causing breathlessness.

• I really cannot comment on the life expectancy without knowing the type of cancer, if in case it is.

• A lot many times, the mass is not a cancer and is benign in nature that can be removed with good life expectancy.

• In case it is malignant, the histopathology would tell us the type, which would decide the treatment course as well as the life expectancy.

• If, this is declared as cancer, we also need to find out that this is local only or has metastasized.

• First of all we need to be sure, what it is exactly either it is a cancer only or a growth or tuberculosis.

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