What is Lung-Cancer
Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. Most commonly it is bronchogenic carcinoma (about 90%). Lung cancer is one of the most leth...
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Lung Cancer Treatments
| Treatment | Description | Reviewed by | Helps | |
 | Chemotherapy | Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day us... Read Reviews | 110 Members | 79% of the time |
| Carboplatin | Carboplatin is a chemotherapy drug used against some forms of cancer (mainly ovarian ... Read Reviews | 30 Members | 74% of the time |
| Tarceva | Erlotinib hydrochloride (trade name Tarceva, Genentech/OSIP, originally coded as OSI-... Read Reviews | 23 Members | 47% of the time |
| Radiotherapy | Radiotherapy is commonly used for the treatment of malignant tumours (cancer), and ma... Read Reviews | 21 Members | 79% of the time |
| Gemcitabine | Gemcitabine is a nucleoside used as chemotherapy. It is marketed as Gemzar? by Eli Li... Read Reviews | 14 Members | 70% of the time |
| Taxotere | Docetaxel is a clinically well established anti-mitotic chemotherapy medication used ... Read Reviews | 14 Members | 75% of the time |
| Radiofrequency Ablation | Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) uses radiofrequency energy to destroy abnormal electric... Read Reviews | 11 Members | 86% of the time |
| Surgery | Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual... Read Reviews | 8 Members | 100% of the time |
| Taxol | Paclitaxel (Taxol®) is a drug used in the treatment of cancer. Paclitaxel has since b... Read Reviews | 5 Members | 100% of the time |
| Aranesp | Darbepoetin alfa (rINN)is a synthetic form of erythropoietin. It stimulates erythropo... Read Reviews | 5 Members | 75% of the time |
| Topotecan | Topotecan (Hycamtin®) is a chemotherapy agent that is a topoisomerase 1 inhibitor. It... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 50% of the time |
| Navelbine | Vinorelbine (Navelbine®) is an anti-mitotic chemotherapy drug that is given as a tre... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 67% of the time |
| Methotrexate | Methotrexate, abbreviated MTX and formerly known as amethopterin, is an antimetabolit... Read Reviews | 3 Members | 67% of the time |
| Crying | To weep is to make less the depth of grief. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Read Reviews | 3 Members | 67% of the time |
| Avastin | Bevacizumab (trade name Avastin®) is an anti-angiogenesis drug used in treatment of ... Read Reviews | 2 Members | 100% of the time |
