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Stage 4 stomach cancer is diagnosed in approximately 30,300 Americans annually, which is 1.5% of all cancers. The highest risk is for people over 55. This type of oncology presents serious challenges, but newer treatments in advanced medical centers improve outcomes. Modern therapies – like HIPEC, PIPAC, and...

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common type of cancer in men and one of the main causes of death in developed countries of Europe and North America. The incidence of it has risen annually by 3% since 2014. Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death among males in the US. According to the American Cancer Society...

A stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis can be a challenge for the patient and their family. The presence of metastases indicates the spread of cancer to the distant organs, with the stage being shown in 22% of patients at the moment of diagnosis. Conventional approaches can achieve a 13% five-year survival rate, which is not much.

Cervical cancer is ranked as the fourth most common cancer among women. Nearly 660,000 new patients were diagnosed in 2022, with 350,000 deaths reported. Most of those lethal cases, about 94%, are observed in low- and middle-income countries because of limited access to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and...

Lung metastases affect 20-54% of patients with extrathoracic cancers. What is important, they reduce survival rates dramatically – breast cancer survival drops from 96% to 21% with lung spread, while colorectal cancer survival falls from 91% to below 10% with metastasis. These secondary tumors commonly...

Stage 4 of breast cancer is called advanced or metastatic. At this step, the tumor spreads beyond the breast to other organs. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 316,950 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women in the US in 2025. In the UK, there could be around 69,900 new cases...

Bladder cancer stage 4 is the most advanced form of the disease. It is characterized by the spread of cancer cells beyond the bladder (to distant lymph nodes, liver, lungs and even bones). According to statistics bladder cancer is among the most common malignancies worldwide with an estimated 573,000 new cases diagnosed annually...

Ovarian cancer is the 8th most common type of cancer in women, with more than 320,000 new cases registered in 2022. Around a quarter (25%) of all new cases were diagnosed in women aged 75 and older. Taking into account that early symptoms are subtle and non-specific, especially among older women, ovarian...