Lung Cancer

Chemotherapy Drug and Radiation May Help Patients Live Longer

Published in Health and Medicine Week, June 5th, 2000

Non-small cell lung cancer - the kind related mostly to smoking - is terribly difficult to treat. Now, researchers at Jefferson Medical College have preliminary clinical trial results showing that giving advanced lung cancer patients a common chemotherapy drug at the same time they receive daily radiation may help them live longer than by taking one treatment at a time.

The new findings promise to change the way thousands of lung cancer patients are treated.

Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD, clinical director of the Kimmel Cancer Center and professor and chair of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in...

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