Glad I live east of the Mississippi . <| sep |> You don ' t know the difference between correct and right . His followers are pretty much scum bags . They are wrong on a whole different level . <| sep |> I use Humanbenchmark <| sep |> Pretty fucking low . Like , single digits low . Stage 4 usually means the cancer has spread into other organs and bones and etc . It will also be a lifelong battle , because it ' s very likely it recur . But all hope is not lost ! My sister was diagnosed in 2008 with stage 4 melanoma . She went to MD Anderson in houston , but they didn ' t really make any progress after many trips across the country . Corporate Angels did the flying for them , it ' s a program where they hitch a ride on corporate jets going to the same city . She came back home , their family moved due to husbands job , and she found a new doctor at KU Med in Kansas City . Her doctor there suggested many things , including some clinical trials . She took part in a couple of them , but still , her best luck was simply preventing it from spreading further . They went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for a trial there . They were there in 2010 during that huge flood . She went there for several months , every weekend or every other weekend . And it started to regress . God , it makes me tear up just thinking about it . The clinical was like magic . In just a few months , her cancer was gone . Just . gone . Here we are . 6 years later , and no sign of it coming back . Now she ' s really careful what she eats , she ' s very sensitive to sunlight , and she runs constantly . She completed 2 full marathons in 2016 , and countless shorter races . I ' m so freaking proud of her , and so lucky she found something that reacted so well with her . So there ' s a chance ! Slim chance , but it happens , and it happens so much more frequently with fit and healthy individuals .