I hv heard tht a cancer patient can't live more than 6-7 yrs after having chemotherapy...Is it right or wrong?

This question is regarding intestinal cancer...is it true that a person can't survive more than six to seven years after being treated through chemotherapy?I hope i'll get appropriate answers.

I'm not sure that I understand your question. Do you mean while undergoing treatment? It is difficult for a person to remain on chemotherapy for six or seven years, but it can be done. I know people who are on low dose maintenance drugs and their cancer is treated as a chronic disease. Maintenance (metronomic) chemotherapy is used when the patient's cancer is stable and not exhibiting any sign of progression.

Often the patient has elected not to have surgery to remove the tumors or the tumor is considered inoperable. There are some low dose drugs (etoposide) that can maintain that stability . (I should emphasive that it is always preferable to have complete removal of the tumors, but when that is not possible than maintenance drugs can be used).

I also know people who have completed high dose chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, radiation, and surgery . . they have 'no evidence of disease' and are ten years or more out that treatment. They are called cancer survivors. Lance Armstrong had chemotherapy and surgery more than ten years ago and he's doing fine.

true, i now someone who died. so sad. i cried. my friend. i cried.

yes its true unfortunately my grandpa had cancer he lived 5 and 1/2 years then past....

well if they use marijuana they will survive longer
chemo, you have no hunger, and pain
marijuana gives you munchies, hence nurition your once starved body, and kill the pain better than oxys in a double blind study
it all depends on the person , you can never tell for sure, but its wrong to jail patients for using effective medicine.

100% wrong...some live 10,,15 or 20 yrs....intestinal cancer does have lower "cure rate" than some cancer but tjhere is no limit on living

It depends on the reason they had chemotherapy. Most procedures have statistics for how long the average survival rate is per year after surgury/chemo is done.

It depends on so many things how long a person will live after it. Some people live shorter and people live longer.

It depends on the person; not everyone dies. There are many, many cancer survivors of 10 years or more than underwent chemo. What really makes the difference is the WILL to survive. You have to fight - every day - to beat the disease. It can be done.

Wrong, My Grandpa had Chemotherapy over 15 years ago and he is still alive. He is in his mid 80's now. He had colon cancer. He living strong and gets around great just like if he was 60.

If you mean a person won't live more than 7 years after having chemotherapy in the past, that is not true at all.
If you mean they'll die if they have chemotherapy continuously for 7 years, I don't think they'd put someone through that for 7 years, and I don't know any reason that it'd take so long. They probably would die, because chemotherapy doesn't only damage cancerous cells, but if they haven't gotten rid of the cancer after that long, it would have spread too far into the body for the chemo to do any good anyway.

That is definitely not true. According to adjuvantonline, a website for medical professionals, my odds of being alive in ten years are 93%. If I never had cancer, my odds would be 97% (as they factor in all causes of death). I've known people that have survived well past the ten year mark.

The answer to this question lays in the hand of the Father. Only he can determine when it's time.

wrong

I HAVE

I underwent chemotherapy 20yrs ago and survived, though not for intestinal cancer. In the intervening years while awaiting the all clear I saw many people who shouldn't have survived beat the disease, while others with a great chance of recovery succumbed and died. There are a multitude of factors involved and no-one can predict the outcome of any particular case. One thing I did learn though is that your mindset plays a large role in the final outcome.

no that is not true every individual is different ,don't listen to any body's advice but your doctor.

nooooooooooo nooooooo nooooooo
it is very possible that they will live much longer.
Even if the docto says they won't...
they could still live a full life

Thats a very complicated question. Chemotheraphy is for patient suffering for cancer that still can be treated. Chemotheraphy is used to destroy cancer cells by stopping them from growing and multiplying, it delivers nausea and vomiting afterwards or during the process. If the patient is in late stage being treated and diagnosis continues on growing and mutiplying inspite of chemotheraphy, the patient more likely will not last for 3 months. If the patient was diagnosed early and continues on chemotheraphy, the patient cancer more likely to advance treatment and slow down in growing and multiplying, the result of cancer will end in 2 or 4 years of continues chemotheraphy. Anyone whose using chemotheraphy has no guaranteed of saving life, although it has change so many lives. I Hope this help your questions.