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Treatments for Lung Cancer
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Reviewed October 2011
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| Title: | Lobectomy |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Information about lobectomy, the surgical removal of one lobe of the lungs, usually to remove a lung cancer. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Concurrent chemoradiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The use of chemotherapy concurrent with radiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer may enhance the benefits of radiotherapy in terms of local and regional control and thus improve survival. A total of twenty-five randomised studies (inc... |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy and supportive care versus supportive care alone for advanced non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer. If the tumour has spread from the lung to other parts of the body (advanced) it cannot usually be cured. Doctors use different treatments to prevent or relieve symptoms and keep ... |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Surgery versus radiosurgery for patients with a solitary brain metastasis from non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A solitary brain metastasis is the spread of cancer to the brain some time after successful treatment of the primary cancer. When the metastasis is caused by non-small cell lung cancer there are two main treatment options: surgery and radiosurgery. Radi... |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy versus best supportive care for extensive small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | SmalI cell lung cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all new cases of lung cancer. This cancer is often diagnosed after it has spread to the brain, liver, bone or bone marrow and most patients die in the first year after diagnosis. This review found ... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Surgical sealant for preventing air leaks after pulmonary resections in patients with lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Air leak (air coming out of the remaining lung tissue) after lung removal for lung cancer is a common postoperative complication that prolongs hospital stay. Surgical sealants (glue), synthetic or made from blood products, have been developed to prevent... |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Postoperative radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. If this type of lung cancer has not spread, standard treatment is an operation to remove the tumour. Trials of a treatment called Post-Operative Radiotherapy Treatment (PORT), which inv... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Platinum versus non-platinum chemotherapy regimens for small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a very aggressive form of cancer due to early metastasis. As a result, chemotherapy forms the mainstay of treatment. This review compared platinum-based chemotherapy regimens and non-platinum-based chemotherapy regimens ... |
| Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Title: | Palliative endobronchial brachytherapy for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have a poor prognosis and the therapeutic options are limited to controlling their symptoms and maintaining their quality of life. Palliative endobronchial brachytherapy (EBB) is used as a trea... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Second or third additional chemotherapy drug for non-small cell lung cancer in patients with advanced disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Randomized trials have demonstrated that adding a drug to a single-agent or to a two-drug regimen increased the tumor response in patients with NSCLC, although its impact on survival remains controversial. Sixty-five trials (13601 patients) were eligibl... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Elemene for the treatment of lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Elemene was reported to be effective in alleviating the pain, decreasing the side effects of chemotherapy and improving the quality of life of lung cancer patients in some studies, but the review authors found that all of the claimed randomised controll... |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy and surgery versus surgery alone in non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The results of this systematic review suggest that pre-operative chemotherapy might increase survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer when compared to surgery alone. However, an individual patient data systematic review and meta-analysis is ... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Palliative radiotherapy regimens for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In most developed countries lung cancer is one of the commonest tumours. Only 10 to 20% of patients can have surgery with a chance of cure. For many of the rest it can be beneficial to treat the tumour in the lung with radiotherapy to relieve symptoms s... |
| Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Title: | Cranial irradiation for preventing brain metastases of small cell lung cancer in patients in complete remission |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Small-cell lung cancer accounts for 20-25% of lung cancer. Treatment with chemotherapy and thoracic radiotherapy yields complete response rates of 50-85%. But, due to relapses, only 15% of patients who achieved complete response survived at 3 years sinc... |
| Date: | Nov 2003 |
| Title: | Lung cancer: treatment - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | The main treatments for lung cancer are surgery, radiotherapy (X-ray treatment) and chemotherapy (drug treatment). |
| Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Title: | Second-line chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with lung cancer and a good physical condition who have not been cured by a first round of chemotherapy often receive a second round of chemotherapy (second-line). A second round of chemotherapy may not increase the survival chances of these pa... |
| Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Title: | Radical radiotherapy for stage I/II non-small cell lung cancer in patients not sufficiently fit for or declining surgery (medically inoperable) |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer. For early cancers the best treatment is surgery. However, sometimes people have other medical problems that make surgery risky; for them,radiotherapy (radiation treatment) is an ... |
| Date: | Oct 2000 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. The standard treatment for small tumours is surgery (operation to remove the tumour) or surgery and radiotherapy (x-ray treatment). Where the tumour has spread within the chest, standard... |
| Date: | Jan 2000 |
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