How is cancer so deadly but a person feels fine one day then the next they are told they have 4 months to live?
In: Biology
Just to add to the other answers, when a Doctor tells someone they have X amount of time, it’s usually a highly educated guesstimate as there are so many unknowable factors based on the individual that affect survival rate.
So you hear stories of “I knew someone that was told he had a week to live and he lasted two years” – the Doctor would have been making their prediction based on their personal clinical experience combined with data from studies in journals, etc.
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