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RC280.L8 - Lung Cancers
Alexandra Andrews


RC280.L8.J103.1 - Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Thierry M. Jahan, MD, Alan B. Glassberg, MD, Patricia Cornett, MD, Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, Peter Anastassiou, MD, Sabrina Selim, MD and David Jablons, MD
Non Small Cell Lung cancer accounts for 80 percent of all lung cancer cases. There has been modest improvement in the survival rate over the past two decades. We lack a satisfactory, widely applicable, screening test that could increase our ability to detect lung cancer at an early stage, when it has the best chance of being cured and the fact that lung cancer is a biologically aggressive cancer.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/nonsmallcell.html
First appeared 2002-08-12; updated 2007-08-19
RC280.L8.J103.2 - Small Cell Lung Cancer
Thierry M. Jahan, MD, Alan B. Glassberg, MD, Patricia Cornett, MD, Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, Peter Anastassiou, MD, Sabrina Selim, MD and David Jablons, MD
Small cell lung cancer accounts for about a 20% of all lung cancer cases. Also called oat cell carcinoma of the lung, it has the most rapid clinical course of any type of lung cancer
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/smallcell.html
First appeared 2002-08-12; updated 2008-10-13
RC280.L8.R39.1 - 2006 - Lung Cancer Update Information
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
Chemotherapy in elderly patients, using single drug therapy leads to significant improvement in one-year survival and quality of life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/lung2006.html
First appeared 2006-03-08; updated 2007-08-19




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