Breathing, tumor

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Breathing, tumor

Asked for Male, 76 Years

My Grandfather is of age 76years wieght 65kg he is having a problem of breathing and while checkup we get to knew his one lung is fully damaged and another one is half damaged. His heart is surrounded with water and near to his lungs there is a tumor of 9cm and also he is having pneumonia and joindis and he also had 3times cancer which after treatment he was fine. My question is will he survive or not and if for how many days or months or years

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Dr. Swathi S Aithal General Physician 9 yrs exp Bangalore Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Swathi S Aithal

General Physician 9 yrs exp Bangalore

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Hello.. Sir..Considering his age and the co morbidities you mention it's very difficult for him to go through the aggressive treatment....I cannot tell exactly about his life expectancy and the disease progression without actually seeing his general condition ...But yes prognosis is poor...Meet a physician or a pulmonologist in person... Thank you

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