"The Five Main Lung Cancer Treatment Types"
Treatments for lung cancer have improved significantly over the last decade. During the last 10 years, newer medications have emerged that are helping people live longer and better quality lies. One of those discoveries was targeted therapies. "Targeted therapies are really going after the specific cause, the specific molecule that's abnormal and producing the cancer," said Jorge Gomez, a lung oncologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Because targeted therapies focus on killing cancer cells and spare the healthy cells, they tend to cause less side effects than chemo. "Targeted therapies are appropriate for patients who have those activating mutations or changes in the cancer cell that can respond to those targeted therapies," concluded Dr. Gomez.
— Jorge E. Gomez, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Lung Oncologist, The Mount Sinai Hospital