If someone was diagnosed with even stage 1 cancer. What is the chances of the cancer just going away, without any treatment? Has anyone ever heard of any cases with an outcome such as this?
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Spontanious remission. Rare, but it happens.
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yah its rare, but it happens i heard stories like, this one person praying everyday for the cancer to go away,next check up, the cancer is gone
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There is a condition called spontaneous remission . . it works the same way with many other diseases that seem to go away with no apparent reason. Think of it this way . . the overwhelming majority of time no one has a clue where the cancer came in the first place . . so for it to go away in the same manner in which it came . . what's so strange about that? Actually, there may be a scientific explanation for it . . even though it is spontaneous what it means is that the cancer cell has 'rediscovered' its switch and has turned the tumor off. The cancer cells than revert back to 'normal cells'. This is an area in which researchers are investigating a possible 'cure' for some types of cancer. If they can convince the cancer cells to stop mutating and stop their uncontrollable growth . . the cell turns 'normal' again. They are still along way off though from finding out how to do this with over 200 different cancers. They have recently been able to do this with Ewing's Sarcoma in the lab: Discovery Of The Cellular Origin Of Ewing's Sarcoma http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070519152605.htm One of the reported examples of spontaneous remission recorded for cancer of cervix in Entrez Pubmed: Onkologie. 2006 Apr;29(4):159-61. Epub 2006 Mar 29. Links Spontaneous remission of metastases of cancer of the uterine cervix.Gaussmann AB, Imhoff D, Lambrecht E, Menzel C, Mose S. Abteilung Gynakologie und Geburtshilfe, HELIOS Klinik Huenfeld, Germany. Agaussmann@huenfeld.helios-kliniken.de BACKGROUND: Spontaneous remission (SR) is the complete or incomplete disappearance of a disease or cancer despite no or inadequate treatment. SR is a rare event, and only 5 cases of SR of carcinoma of the uterine cervix have been reported so far. CASE REPORT: We report the case of a young woman suffering from carcinoma of the uterine cervix metastasized to the lung, pleura, bone, skin and brain. The primary tumor was removed. After diagnosis of the histologically proven metastases, further palliative treatment was inadequate, except for radiotherapy to the brain. In all other metastases, spontaneous remission occurred. 8 years after the initial diagnosis of metastasis, there is no evidence of active disease. CONCLUSION: SR is a rare but evident phenomenon. Individual features of malignant tumors should be taken into account much more when determining the best treatment for the patient. PMID: 16601372 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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