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Different Treatments available for Lung Cancer

The lung cancer treatment is selected by the patients as well as their doctors. This selection is totally based upon various factors, such as the overall health of the patient, type and the stage of cancer, plus, the patient’s preferences too. The options typically include one treatment and in some cases more treatments.<br>Visit: https://www.parashospitals.com/paras-cancer-centre/lung-cancer.html

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Different Treatments available for Lung Cancer

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  1. Different Treatments available for Lung Cancer

  2. Treatments for Lung Cancer • Surgery • Chemotherapy • Radiation Therapy • Targeted Drug Therapy

  3. Surgery • In this, the surgeons remove the lung cancer and a margin of healthy tissue. The procedures to for the removal of lung cancer includes Wedge resection, Segmental resection, Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy. • Types of Lung Surgery • Pneumonectomy • Lobectomy • Segmentectomy

  4. Chemotherapy • This procedure includes usage of drugs that kills the cancer cells. There can be one or more drugs given through a intravenously or to be taken orally. There is a combination of drugs which is given usually in a series of treatments spanning over a period of weeks or even months, that also has breaks in between that helps in the recovery. • Types of Chemotherapy • Neoadjuvant Therapy- Before Surgery try to shrink a tumor • Adjuvant Therapy- After surgery try to kill cancer cells that may have been left behind

  5. Radiation Therapy • In this therapy high-powered energy beams are used from the sources such as X-rays as well as protons to kill the cancer cells. This can be directed through external beam radiation or can be done by putting in the needles, seeds or catheters and placed inside the body near the cancer. • Types of Radiation Therapy: • External Beam Radiation Therapy- It focuses radiation from outside the body on the cancer • Three dimensional conformal radiation therapy- It uses special computers to precisely map the location of the tumor.

  6. Targeted Drug Therapy • This therapy is known as one of the newer cancer treatments that mainly works by targeting the specific abnormalities in the cancer cells. These targeted therapy drugs are also used in a combination with the chemotherapy drugs. • Some of the targeted therapies only works only for the people whose cancer cells have a certain kind of genetic mutations. A Patient’s cancer cells are tested in a laboratory to know how these drugs can help in the treatment.

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