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What is the best treatment for lung cancer?
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Depends on type: there are different kind of lung cancers, also they present at different stages ( how advanced). Doctor has to decide based on above info.
Answered 5/2/2015
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Lung cancer: Current literature revealed death from lung cancer in US is about 160,000 a year, nearly haft are women. Two kinds of lung cancer: 1)non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and 2) small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Treatment for for stage 1 &2 NSCLC is complete resection of tumor if possible, and chemo to follow if indicated. Stage 3 and 4 chemo and radiation. For SCLC chemotherapy is treatment of choice.
Answered 4/27/2020
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