Lung Cancer: Later Stage Treatment
Lung Cancer
Later Stage Treatment
There are remarkable new options for managing later stage lung cancer.
Stage four lung cancer means that your cancer has spread to other organs that may include your brain, liver and/or bones. The goal of therapy is to treat the entire body in order to destroy every last remnant of the cancer. In the past, chemotherapy–which kills all fast-growing cells in the body–was considered the treatment standard for stage four lung cancer, but times have changed. Precision med... Read More
Later Stage Treatment: New Approaches
Employing the immune system is now a viable treatment option for many more people with advanced-stage lung cancer.
Later Stage Treatment: Immunotherapy
Employing the immune system is now a viable treatment option for many more people with advanced-stage lung cancer.
Later Stage Treatment: Targeted Therapy
Later Stage Treatment: Clinical Trials
One treatment option for lung cancer may be a pneumonectomy, which is surgery to remove a lung. Because this can permanently reduce your breathing capacity, most surgeons usually try to choose a less extreme form of surgery or they may consider chemotherapy or radiation therapy first. A pneumonectomy can be very risky. Short-term complications can include respiratory failure, fluid buildup in the... Read More