Post Views: 2,027 About Cisplatin Cisplatin is an anti-cancer chemotherapy drug and is classified as an “alkylating agent.” It is used alone or in combination of other medications to slow the growth…
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Third-Line Treatment for Lung Cancer
Post Views: 2,338 Lung cancer is not only developed on smokers or people who comes under regular contact of radon gases; but it also happen in other people. Smoking is a major…
Second-Line Treatment for Lung Cancer
Post Views: 2,274 Lung Cancer a dangerous disease but curable with proper guidance. As you regularly reading about lung cancer in this blogs previous posts, also you read about systemic therapy in…
First-Line Treatment for Lung Cancer
Post Views: 2,342 Lung cancer a dangerous disease, everybody get scared of this disease. Due to lack of knowledge about its treatment people lose hope, while they got diagnosed by lung cancer;…
Lung Cancer In Pregnant Women
Post Views: 1,237 It is rare that pregnant women have lung cancer, but there may be a chance of having lung cancer during pregnancy. It occurs only in 1 out of 1000…
Systemic Therapy for Advance Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Post Views: 2,274 Lung cancer is a dangerous disease and to get cured from this patients need proper treatment and when it’s on advance stage it more necessary to get proper treatment. There…
Recurrent Carcinoid Tumor
Post Views: 1,728 Once you fully cure from lung carcinoid tumor, there may be a chance that it comes back and this comeback of carcinoid tumor is called recurrence. It’s very rear…
Palliative Procedures for Lung Carcinoid Tumor Symptoms
Post Views: 1,411 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…
Treatments For Lung Carcinoid Tumor
Post Views: 1,545 As described on my previous posts about Lung Carcinoid Tumor symptoms, types and tests for diagnoses, now this post I am going to discuss its treatments and their effect….
Two Types of Lung Cancer
Post Views: 1,824 “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…
Physical Exercise Help In Lung Cancer Cure
Post Views: 1,420 Physical exercise & lung cancer; are they relate to each other, the answer is yes. Why yes??? As we all know physical exercise make us healthy, fit and active;…
New Hope for Lung Cancer Patients with FDA Approval of Gefitinib
Post Views: 1,582 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…