Chemotherapy for lung cancer

Administering drugs that stop the growth of cancer cells preventing them from dividing or killing them, is called chemotherapy. Chemotherapy for lung cancer is used as before surgery and in the postoperative period. A specific role for this method of treatment when detected in a patient with an inoperable malignant tumors when lymph nodes of the mediastinum is already damaged by metastases. Chemotherapy can stop the development of lung cancer that extends a patient's life and improves its quality.

Types of chemotherapy

Chemo therapy for lung cancer is of several types, which differ by purpose and objectives:

1)Neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Tasks:

• assigned before surgery to reduce the size of inoperable tumors;
• carried out to determine the sensitivity of cancer cells to drugs (for further chemotherapy after the surgery);

2) Adjuvant chemotherapy.

Tasks:

• assigned after surgery to prevent recurrence;
• conducted for the prevention of metastasis after removal of a malignant tumor).

3) Curative chemotherapy.

The main objective is to reduce metastatic cancer tumors.

Chemotherapy for lung cancer: the effectiveness of the method

the end of chemotherapy.