Jack by the hedge
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Stage 4 is not automatically terminal. It merely means the cancer has spread to other regions of the body.
Lower stages can also kill you just fine.
It mostly depends on what the cancer *is*.
This.
One of our (adult) kids was, out of the blue, diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma in Jan '24. With less than 6 months treatment, is now in full remission and highly probably cured (a word doctors once carefully avoid, in my limited experience).
Yeah, it absolutely depends on which of a couple of hundred different cancers you get. And more and more of them are becoming treatable. I keep hearing survivors say "if I'd got it 10 or even 5 years earlier it would have been a different story".

