Life expectancy for Basal Cell Carcinoma?
For a science project i have to make a 9 slide power point presentation on a type of cancer. I chose Basal Cell Carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, for my project. I need to know the life expectancy of patients with BCC.
- april
BCC is not a life threatening cancer. It doesn't metastasize, therefore will not spread into organs like other cancers. So the life expectancy is normal lifespan.
Lol, well I'm 99% correct!
My mom had a couple spots removed and has a couple more; she's 76 yrs old and never tanned.
Rates of metastasis for BCC have been estimated at 0.1%.
Average age: 85
Average refusal of treatments:40%
One documented death from tumor of bcc on spine for 15 years, Patient refused treatments. When it got so bad, as to have to be treated, he died of sepsis, not bcc. He was 53 yrs old.
- xxxx
April is not 100% correct. BCC can metastasize if left alone and never removed. If it were 100% benign doctors wouldn't bother to remove them. But it is mostly older people who get them, so it rarely lasts long enough so that it gets to the point where it metastasizes.
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