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.Visit: https://www.parashospitals.com/paras-cancer-centre/lung-cancer.html

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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