New Lung Cancer Therapies

" New therapies are prolonging the lives of patients with lung cancer and improving their quality of life. There's still a lot of pessimism. Among patients and even among other doctors about. And the value of giving treatment to patients with lung cancer. Some are skeptical that we can improve cure rates and some people who we can't hear there's a perception that it's not worth bothering with treatment. What we have done in the last. Ten years -- and especially in the last five years. Is develop treatments. That. In a curative sending can improve secure rates and in the non curator setting. Can improve survival. Or if keeping the same survival can. Do that with fewer side effects for patients."

" Chemotherapy that we use not a decrease in comparable to work comfort to craft he's asked -- post you'll. Thank you want to be so patient so you can't listen to you chemotherapy and hopefully there -- we you know seek. The most important thing to remember is that we have many drugs for -- okay. So those include the basic truck which assists flattened. In combination with other drugs such as tax it's here packed with Axl -- side to being. Have attracts and there are multiple other drugs that can be used the -- and we can look -- and McCain faction."

" It's being damaged media -- accounts and so. But feels about what you have the -- and many of the side effects seen with chemotherapy. Stem from this collateral damage done to healthy cells. So in addition to traditional chemotherapy. Doctors are also treating patients with newer targeted therapies."

" We've been trying to target the actual cause of cancer the actual. Metabolic. Or biological mechanisms that force the -- to become malignant. In an effort. To reverse that process. That are intelligently design treatments that we have that are specifically focusing on a particular molecule lot of cancer cell. That is not shared. On many of the cells -- the -- and the idea is that it targeted therapy can that the cancer with fewer side effects for patient. To receive it is such a newly approved targeted drugs are a -- men or tar receive which is an uphill. -- that was shown to improve survival. As second or third line treatment after chemotherapy. In patients with advanced lung cancer. -- receiver targets the protein per one EG FR the epidural growth factor receptor. These little groups were gonna stepped over it and there's -- ownership of gunshots around. Did you grow because of -- There's a newer targeted therapy called -- is a member -- fast and the target the tumor blood supply. And that has been added to cargo platinum panic attacks on and shown to improve survival compared to just the two chemo drugs without. The oppressed in the services and have arm in a trial. Targeted therapies such as to receive and Avastin may have unique side effects in patients should discuss these with your doctor before taking the drugs. Researchers are also studying -- therapies."

" Some of the new therapies are vaccines. Where we object substances into the body and have the body create antibodies. Against. Those molecules that are also present on cancer cells and in that way try to kill cancers. Other real therapies are actually antibodies. That are created. Either artificially. -- grown in mines that are injected into humans geared towards specific targets on cancer cells also to either let the sound -- We're just killed so."

" You can also. Potentially. Train the immune cells of your own body. Two. Recognize. The tumor cells that may involve taking out symbolize the are taking out to the white cells of the body that do the infection fighting training them in a lab setting. To recognize and fight against. A cancer. And then actually injecting -- those same cancer cells and the patients so that they can teach the rest of the body how to fight. That's cancer and that is not really. And being studied in a pretty advanced -- Iraq now. With all these new drugs and the promise of immunotherapy is lung cancer patients are living longer and experiencing fewer treatment side effects. Of."

" Putting the next year we will have a very. Exciting times for patients. Don't -- hopefully we'll be from marketing tool he's really making me get Carney PCs and like diabetes and hypertension and you could not secure however you -- So right for you could -- stuff that's horrible at least it would kind of cute little Garcia. We comprise you. Paying -- for two years of flying."