Feb17
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Posted by Dr. Dinesh Pendharkar on Thursday, 17th February 2011
Lung cancer has emerged as no one cancer in men in metros. The major reason being smoking.The incidence and prevalence is going to be higher and higher.mangement of lung cancer has become extremely important and involves lot of skill. early stage lung cancer is operable,but we see less than 5% operable cancers. so our major problem is advnanced or localy advanced cancer. The management of this disease involves extremely skilled choice of drugs .What is more important is navigation between different lines of treatment.Multiple group of drugs are available but unless they are used in appppropirate fashion we can get best out o fthem Important factors are histopathology, status of the patient. For example if is adenocarcinoma one can start with pemetrexed. But for non adenocarcinoma the drug of choice would be gemcitabine carboplatin.One can think of targeted drugs but again in select group.