Modern methods of treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer. Despite the development of medicine is still the main methods of struggle with lung cancer are surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy, an alternative for patients ineligible for surgery. The decision regarding the use of various treatment techniques are taken into account: stage of disease, general condition of the patient and concomitant diseases. Following a number of complications occurring in the course of the main ways of treatment and the lack of certainty as to cure the disease are developed newer, more effective solutions. The article contains brief descriptions of the latest methods in the treatment of small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ie, stereotactic radiotherapy using a robot Cyber Knife, chemotherapy with cisplatin, treatment with small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors and the ablation of high-frequency RF (Radiofrequency Ablation – RFA). These techniques are much more effective than standard, and also observed a lower risk of complications after their use. The available literature shows that current clinical trials are ongoing to develop new promising methods. Efforts to search for newer and newer therapies hold promise for the future by giving hope to find a reliable method that allows for complete recovery of patients diagnosed with lung cancer.