What is LungNets? Lung Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a type of lung cancer and are classified into four different categories with different courses. These are an uncommon type of tumor that start…
Category: Types of Lung Cancer
Get to know about various types of lung cancer, symptoms, stages, treatment methods and researches. browse our site to get more information on lung cancer.
Stage 2 Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Stage 2 non-small cell lung cancer is the stage where the tumor is present in lung and has spread to local lymph nodes but not further than that. Stage II non-small cell…
Palliative Procedures for Lung Carcinoid Tumor Symptoms
Treatments like Palliative Procedures are only done when lung cancer patient can’t have surgery; this is because patient’s lungs functioning is reduced, or have other serious medical problems, or cancer spread too…
Lung Carcinoid Tumor
Lung Carcinoid Tumor also called lung neuroendocrine tumors because it is made up of neuroendocrine cells; is a slow-growing uncommon tumor and less than 5% lung cancer patients are affected from this….
Two Types of Lung Cancer
“Bronchogenic carcinomas” is another name of lung cancer. Usually people know and hear about lung cancer stages and its complications. It’s very less that we talk about three types of lung cancer;…
New Hope for Lung Cancer Patients with FDA Approval of Gefitinib
In July 15, the U. S. Food and Drug (FDA) Administration approved IRESSA (gefitinib) for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors harbor specific types…
Signs and Symptoms of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Having talked about non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its types, now we are focusing on the causes and symptoms of NSCLC. A number of factors are responsible for developing lung cancer….
When Lung Cancer Spreads To The Brain
The most common type of cancer that spreads easily to the brain is lung cancer. When lung cancer spreads to the brain, it implies that cancer cells broken off from the cancer…