How do doctors determine the amount of time a terminally ill patient has left?
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Just been through this in last few months.
Dad (85 y/o) was diagnosed with brain tumor 13th Sept 2022. Doctor gave 3 options:
1) Do nothing and go within 3 months
2) Have Radio/Chemo therapy and maybe get 6 months
3) Brain Op + Radio/Chemo and maybe get 9 months
Dad chose option 1 and he went within 6 weeks (28th Nov ’22). And this is how it was explained to me:
Over the years they have seen patients of all ages with brain tumors of various sizes and recorded the results of how long they took to pass.
Then they take an average time for an age of X with a tumor size of X. It pretty accurate.
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