Pancoast Tumour foam in the top part of lung called apex and invading the surrounding soft tissues. This type of lung cancer is difficult to treat because of its close proximity to…
Tag: Types of Lung Cancer
Mesothelioma: Symptoms and Causes
Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer that occurs in thin layer of tissue covering the majority of internal organs. It is divided into different types based on what part of Mesothelioma…
All About Squamous Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
The leading cause behind cancer related deaths is lung cancer and most of the lung cancer cases are of non-small cell lung cancer type. NSCLC occurs in about 80% to 85% and…
New Machine Learning Model to Classify Types of Lung Cancer
Over the years, machine learning has improved dramatically and has shown great improvement in image analysis. The research specialists at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have developed a new machine learning model…
Everything You Need to Know about LungNets
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…
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…
Metastatic Lung Cancer
Metastatic lung cancer is the cancer that has spread from the original part of the body where it started to other parts of the body. The tumor that is first formed is…