New Treatment Option Emerging For Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 20:14
in Health & Medicine
Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, leads to a 100 percent overall survival after threeyears in patients with good lung function before treatment. These results were presented today at the annual CHEST meeting in San Diego. For patients with small tumors characterized as early-stage disease, surgical removal of the affected lobe (lobectomy) is the standard of care. However, surgery is sometimes not an option because of other pre-existing medical conditions such as emphysema or heart disease. read more
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