A 33-year-old member asked:
can you tell me about non-small cell lung cancer?
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Dr. Carlos Encarnacion answered
35 years experience Medical Oncology
Not enough space: Let's see: most common category of lung cancer, often but not always tobacco related, treated with surgery if possible but radiation and chemo are often used as well. I suggest you visit the national cancer institute website. It's has good info regarding all kinds of cancers.
Answered on Dec 22, 2014
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Dr. Mario Matos-Cruz answered
39 years experience Thoracic Surgery
Several: Curative tx for nsclc is surgical.
Stage 1-surgical resection 70%5yr survival
stage 2- surgical resection 30-35% 5 yr survival
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