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Is it ok for a 77 year old woman to go in for chemotherapy for stage 4 liver cancer?
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Age is not a contraindications to chemotherapy. Ability to tolerate chemotherapy depends on general condition of patient (performance status), adequate management of side effects of chemotherapy, disease load of the patient etc.
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