Lung Cancer Treatment

If you or your loved ones have a lung cancer the doctor’s treatment vary widely including the likes of include surgery, chemotherapy (chemical agents to kill and reduce the size of tumor), radiation therapy (use of radiation or high energy particles to kill and shrink the size of tumor), targeted drug therapy (a specific drug targets the cancerous cell growth and spread) and immunotherapy (immune system of the patient is utilized in cure and treatment)

In case of non-small cell lung cancer (NSLC) it can be treated with chemotherapy radiation therapy, surgery, immunotherapy and targeted therapy or a combination of these aforementioned treatments. While chemotherapy is the primary treatment for Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) furthermore the doctor may or may not use the radiation therapy along with the chemotherapy to treat lung cancer