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Has small cell lung cancer in left lung want to give radiation and remove it?

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Radiation treatment: Radiation therapy is usually the method of choice for treatment of limited stage small cell lung cancer; if extensive stage present then chemotherapy would be the treatment of choice.

Answered 9/9/2013

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Dr. Carlos Encarnacion answered

Specializes in Medical Oncology

Complex: Looks like she has small and non small cell cancer (one on each lung). I would assume they want to radiate the sc first and operate the nsc later. Aggressive but if the patient is in good health and neither cancer has spread, can't see why not. I wonder if the oncologist has considered adding chemo to the radiation for the sc. I would guess he/she did and may have a good reason not to use it.

Answered 9/29/2016

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