Your decision about having CPR is personal.

What does advanced cancer mean. People who are near the end of life may choose not to have CPR done. The tumor has not spread beyond the prostate. Or if the lung collapses it may become infected which may be too hard for someone with advanced cancer to fight.

The thing about advanced cancer is that it does make you think about mortality. You should know if the goal of treatment is to cure the cancer slow its growth and help you live longer or relieve symptoms. It is not possible to cure advanced prostate cancer.

Its sometimes also called end-stage cancer. Locally advanced cancer is cancer that has spread into tissues around the lungs. Prostate cancer may be early locally advanced or advanced.

If cancer is in the bones too much calcium may go into the bloodstream which can cause unconsciousness and death. In advanced cancer the heart lungs and other organs begin to fail and its harder to restart them with CPR. Your doctor can help you understand how CPR works and talk with you about whether CPR is likely to work for you.

A physical exam and several tests are used to determine your clinical stage -- an. Other symptoms depend on where the cancer is in the body. Secondary cancer in the bone keeps the name of the original cancer.

Primary cancer refers to the first mass of cancer cells tumour in an organ or tissue. Stage 3 cancer means the breast cancer has extended to beyond the immediate region of the tumor and may have invaded nearby lymph nodes and muscles but has not spread to distant organs. Advanced cancer is most often used to describe cancers that cannot be cured.