Thursday, 4 January 2018

Small-cell lung cancer patients face barriers to receiving standard-of-care treatment

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Despite decades of clinical research establishing chemotherapy with thoracic radiation as the standard-of-care for the initial management of non-metastatic small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), a large percentage of US patients do not receive these treatments and in turn have lower overall survival, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2Ap19at

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