So what is coming out is that if it hits Level 4 you are done? Like nothing really can change? You can never be healed completely?

Ditto!
She said there was a medication which was supposed to be taken for max 7 days only but she tool for 7 whole months back to back.
Sijui it was painkiller or something...watch Rubadiri's.

.... pray.
Actually at stage 4 you are given 6 months min.
Janet's courage,determination,diet faith pls being loved kept her strong and going.
What to say now..
It's over, but her legacy lives on.
Very inspiring and encouraging listening to her.But she's gone and I am broken too.
RIP.Bye.

My grandma was diagnosed with Cancer of the Oesophagus in early 2016.We were not told what stage or maybe I did not ask.We took her to Kijabe and they said at her age and location of the cancer Chemo and radio were out.They inserted a stent on the oesophagus and she continued with her life.Last month she developed eating problems where nothing could go down her tummy.We went back and a second stent was inserted as the cancer had overgrown the first stent.

Save for that she is ok. Eating well (liquid foods) and no pain at all.We thank God for that.

This has got me thinking, could there be another way of managing cancer without surgical intrusion,chemo or radio?It seems like once medication begins one goes downhill very fast.

On Victoria's show she knew. She said that she was in remission but that the word remission was always associated with recurrence, so she stopped googling info.

Anyway we obviously loved her and she is still teaching us. The sad part is that her own Dad the late Dr. Mwiva also died of same.

That gives credence to the below sermon I once listened to and really thought deeply about the whole topic of death.

http://nairobichapel.net/death-dying/

Well Survival rates for Lung cancer is very low, even in developed countries.
I guess the problem lies with treatment Kenyans go for in India. Doctors in India continue treatment even when they know very well the patient wont recover.Which is a shame and a waste of resources.
I know in UK, Doctors tell patients how long they got to live. At this stage they actually shift from treatment to pain and end of life management. Just to make you comfortable

True but some other forms simply have like two main stages.

Stage 1 & 4 - because the transition between stages 1 & 4 is quite drastic due to its original attack organ eg liver.

Liver cancer transition quite fast between the 4 stages since liver is a vital organ which receives lots of blood and the blood system is what cancer cells use to migrate/regroup.

Liver is like a hub in this case. Anytime a cancer cell can be transferred to a different part of the body and start at one new cancer colony!

Actually the cancer stages are defined by the size of the tumor and the potential of the cancer cells to be moved from an infected region of the body to unaffected region.

Quite scary I must say.

New pain: in 2013 I lost a childhood buddy to stomach cancer and even posted the same here. Last month I lost a nephew to breastfeeding cancer and the pain and sadness is immense. The boy was 23 and hap lived with the lump on his left breast for a long time until it became painful around Dec 2016. Late Feb is when diagnosis was started and by the time the results were out he didn't survive for a week. My take: diagnosis is key.

Cancer is a deadly disease and when your diagnosis is stage 4, there isn't much medically to be done and this cuts across all cancers because the cancer cells have spread to distant organs. Paliative care/end of life support is recommedned. But further, cancer in the vital organs is more deadly and as someone said, complications from chemo and reduced immunity(Chemo kills cancer cells and normal cells) is really a challenge. I lost a bro to cancer of the gall bladder early this year, he was diagnosed in stage 4 and passed on one month after diagnosis from an infection he picked after insertion of a stent in India. His liver and kidneys wouldn't withstand chemo and then experienced multiple organ failure(blood poisoning) coz the liver wasn't functioning. Oncologists in the country sometimes tell you the truth, like my bro they advised against the India trip, but family decided to try.
Critically early diagnosis is very important, but its not possible in most cancers because cancer can affect any organ of the body.