When a doctor says months to live they expect that you will usually die within less than a year.
However a doctor cannot say for certain how long you have to live but they can guess pretty good based on other patients living after the same diagnoses and how far progressed your disease or cancer is.
You may live longer than a year or may die sooner.
The length of time you can live after stage 4 depends on the disease or cancer as some people live for 1 year or less with stage 4 disease or cancer and others live 5 years and sometimes longer with treatment.
The life expectancy for Stage 4 varies depending on the disease or cancer you have but with stage 4 disease or cancer you can live from 1 year or less to 5 years and sometimes 8 to 10 years with treatment.
Stage 4 is considered to be guaranteed death although some people may live several years with stage 4 cancer and diseases.
Stage 4 metastasis cannot be cured in most cases as it has advanced way too far.
However treatment can help the stage 4 metastasis from spreading and growing further and you may be able to live for several years with treatment for the stage 4 metastasis depending on the type of cancer.
The length of time you can live with metastatic carcinoma can vary and you may live for 1 year to 5 years or even longer.
Metastatic cancers have spread from where they started to other parts of the body.
Cancers which have spread are often thought of as advanced when they can't be cured or controlled with treatment.
Lung cancer is the most aggressive form of cancer.
Smoking and tobacco use are the major causes of it.
Metastatic carcinoma is the most common type of malignant tumor that involves bone.
The metastatic carcinoma occurs when a neoplasm from one site is transported secondarily to a distant site in the skeletal system and begins to proliferate.
The skeleton is the third most common site for metastatic disease, after lungs and liver.
In most cases, metastatic carcinoma cancer isn't curable.
However metastatic carcinoma treatment can slow tumor growth and ease many of your symptoms.
It's possible to live for several years with some types of cancer, even after metastasis.
The hardest cancers to get rid of and treat include.
Pancreatic cancer.
Liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer.
Esophageal cancer.
Lung cancer and bronchus cancer.
Acute myeloid leukemia.
Brain cancer and other nervous system cancer.
Stomach cancer.
Ovarian cancer.