Stage Iv Metastatic Lung Cancer. The most advanced stage of any types of cancers is stage 4 metastatic cancer. About 85 percent of lung cancers are non small cell lung cancer nsclc.
Metastatic lung cancer is also called stage 4 lung cancer. For example breast cancer that spreads to the lung is called metastatic breast cancer not lung cancer. Metastatic cancer has the same name as the primary cancer.
There are many clinical trials that are improving that contribute in the increase of survival rates of patients.
In 2016 in italy alone more than 41 thousand new cases were diagnosed and approximately 33 thousand deaths were recorded. Sometimes when people are diagnosed with metastatic cancer doctors cannot tell where it started. In cancer there are 5 main stages. Physical changes during the final stages of lung cancer can be related to the tumor in the lungs the spread of cancer to other parts of the body or due to the terminal stages of cancer in general.
