Can Advanced Lung Cancer Be Cured?

[RajNaik]

Advanced lung cancer

[waterboatman]

It can be treated, but unlikely to be cured I'm sorry to say.

[RajNaik]

This is a difficult question because the solution is often yes or no depending upon how you define cure because hope is so important within the setting of cancer.


Long-term survival with lung cancer is usually possible, especially when the disease is caught within the early stages, or if an advanced lung cancer responds to targeted therapies or immunotherapy. Some people survive a few years even with stage 4 lung cancer. Even if lung cancer isn't curable, it's nearly always treatable. And it isn't just that advanced lung cancer is curable. The new treatment options often have a few side effects. There's always an opportunity (in some cases this is often very small) that lung cancer can recur, even a few years after it's originally found. The longer someone lives without evidence of cancer (no evidence of cancer is usually simply called NED). When lung cancer is not spread to the lymph nodes and blood vessels in the early stage that can be cured.

[emmie]

i think he is some kind of med student testing out his knowledge for some odd reason...
seems strange to post the answer...

[waterboatman]

Could be.

[emmie]

as he/she doesn't get back and tell us anything else one assumes he / she is in the medical profession

[waterboatman]

I agree.

[rowanwitch]

Perhaps he thinks this is an automated system that will raise additional facts

[waterboatman]

Good point!

[rowanwitch]

Except he has got into Biddipedia

[fiction-factory]

Poster doesn't seem to be testing him/herself as the answers are just pasted text from a US website. One thread has attracted removed answers- presumably spam- so I'm sure the threads will be looked at closely by the Ed