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Treatment of Lung Cancer / How lung Cancer is treated ?
As with most cancers, treatments for lung cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. The choice of treatment depends on the patient's general health, the stage or extent of the disease, and the type of cancer.
Surgery involves the removal of a cancerous segment (segmentectomy), a lobe of the lung (lobectomy), or the entire lung (pneumonectomy). Lung surgery is serious and can lead to complications such as pneumonia or bleeding. Although removal of an entire lung does not prohibit otherwise healthy people from ultimately resuming normal activity, the already poor condition of many patients' lungs results in long-term difficulty in breathing after surgery.
Radiation may be used alone or in conjunction with surgery—either before surgery to shrink tumours or following surgery to destroy small amounts of cancerous tissue. Radiation treatment may be administered as external beams or surgically implanted radioactive pellets (brachytherapy). Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, or additional damage to the lungs. Chemotherapy uses chemicals to destroy cancerous cells, but these chemicals also attack normal cells to varying degrees, causing side effects that are similar to radiation therapy.
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