New radiation therapy to treat lung cancer

An experimental type of specialized radiation treatment showed promising results for the treatment of lung cancer tumors is not working, but life-threatening.

Surgical removal of tumors is the default processing of lung cancer early, some patients may not fall within the scope of such activities due to other underlying diseases such as emphysema and treat heart disease.

These patients are therefore conventional radiotherapy or is left untreated into the development of cancer by the body and leads to death within two years.

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Stereotactic radiation therapy can improve survival with early stage inoperable lung cancer

When lung cancer is caught early, gives surgery possibility of a cure. But not everyone is a candidate for surgery. And for them-regardless of whether they can refrain from treatment or treated with conventional radiation therapy-survival in 3 years, only about 20-35%.

However, a relatively new technique of radiotherapy, Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), gives hope that people with lung cancer at an early stage, but it doesn't work it can survive much longer than was possible previously.

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