Life expectancy for someone with metastatic cancer has barely improved in the past ten years. Half of the patients whose disease has already spread at the time of diagnosis will live for six months or less. “That is only a month longer compared to ten years ago,” reports the Integrated Cancer Center Netherlands IKNL.
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Every year, 38,000 Dutch people are told that they have metastatic cancer. In one in five diagnosed patients, the cancer has already spread to other organs or lymph nodes. This concerns 21,000 patients per year, according to the report ‘Metastatic cancer in the picture’ of the IKNL
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