Treatment

The type of treatment also typically relates to stage. For example in patients with stages I and II non-small cell lung cancer the treatment of choice is surgery. Radiation is often prescribed to patients with stage III disease or those with stages I or II for whom surgery is not performed. Radiation can provide relief of intrathoracic symptoms. Chemotherapy provides only modest survival benefits (1 to 2 months) in disseminated non-small cell lung cancer. The Cancer Monthly database currently has the results (survival, side effects, etc.) for 60 recent therapies for non-small-cell lung cancer including immunotherapy, chemotherapy, alternative therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy.