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Dear doctor,

Praise the lord

i am ashish from india and please give me some advise related to cancer, doctor diagonsed larnyx/throat cancer to my father and told that it is in 4th stage and only 40% chance to recover please advise me that what can i do and and how we cure it. please advise me doctor told forhere we send some points doctor prescribe during laborotary test:

# cerivical lymphadenopathy.

# pyriform sinun(right)

# supraglottic mass with possible glottic extension.

# lymph nodal mass seen right jugular chain

# level 2nd & 3rd /mildy streky densities.

Please advise and suggest me to help my fahter mew life because i have enough money for treatment.Is the cancer transmitted by somone who have what precautions we have to do.

please advise me.

thank you

ashish

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Alexis

I can't really give any advise as I don't know what 'treatments' there are in your country, I live in the UK & have reacently lost my 20 year old son to cancer after battling for 4+ years. . . if I had money ...& I was you I would take my father to 1 of the cancer clinics in the USA...you need to research your fathers type of cancer, clinics that treat it & their success rates....its a long long way to go if the results are not favourable

take care

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Witchdoctor

It sounds like a like a T4 Squamous cell carcinoma. It is not stage IV unless it has spread to other parts of the Body (although sometimes they call extensive Local diseasse stage IV A, I think this confuses patients AND clinicians) He need Combined Chemo radiation plus/minus surgery depending on response. He may require a neck dissection in any case, this should be done after the initial treatment. He will need dental work if needed and a temporary feeding tube to get him thru treatment. He should get a pretreatment PET / CT scan if available to r/o mets and synchronous primaries.

You need a Radiation Oncology Center with Modern equipment and a well trained staff in Western Methods of treatment. If you can afford it this would be worth the extra expense. Based on the data you present I think with aggressive treatment the potential cure could be about 15 to 20 percent higher

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