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Today, for localized tumors that have not spread (Stage 1), 90 percent of patients will live another five years, and half will live more than 10 years. In about six percent to 10 percent of all breast cancer patients, the cancer has already spread to a second location by the time it is diagnosed (Stage 2). Frightening Diagnosis. Stage 4 cancer is a condition in which cancer has spread (metastasized) from its original location to other organs in the body. Metastatic cancer is what claimed the life of Elizabeth Edwards nearly four years after it was first diagnosed.
1 Like most cancers, skin cancer is more common with increasing age, but malignant melanoma rates are disproportionately high in younger people. 2  More than one-third of all cases of malignant melanoma occur in people aged under 55. Nearly all (97%) people diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for one year or more (2010-11). 2  Malignant melanoma skin cancer survival is higher in women than men. 3  Malignant melanoma skin cancer survival is highest for people diagnosed aged under 40 years old.