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Treatment of Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
Treatment of limited-stage small cell lung cancer may include the following:
- combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy to the chest, with radiation therapy to the brain given later to patients with complete responses
- combination chemotherapy alone for patients who cannot be given radiation therapy
- surgery followed by chemotherapy
- surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy
- radiation therapy to the brain may be given to patients who have had a complete response, to prevent the spread of cancer to the brain
Learn more about these treatments in the Treatment Option Overview.
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This information was sourced and adapted from Adapted from the National Cancer Institute's
Physician Data Query (PDQ®) Cancer Information Summaries on
www.cancer.gov.
This information updated
December 1, 2024.
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