Chemotherapy is a lung cancer treatment management that primary used to treat small cell lung cancer, and chemotherapy often combined with radiation therapy, since lung surgery doesn’t seems has significant effect. Primary chemotherapy is also given in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
In non-small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy using drugs to destroy tumors, and is usually used along with surgery in lung cancer patients. Chemotherapy can make the tumor more manageable before surgery, or to destroy lingering cancer cells at the tumor site after surgery.
The treatment combination with chemotherapy is depending on the tumor type. Non-small cell lung cancer is often treated with cisplatin or carboplatin, in combination with gemcitabine, paclitaxel, docetaxel, etoposide, or vinorelbine.
In small cell lung cancer, cisplatin and etoposide are most commonly used. Combinations with carboplatin, gemcitabine, paclitaxel, vinorelbine, topotecan, and irinotecan are also used. In extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer celecoxib may safely be combined with etoposide, this combination showed improve outcomes.
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