There have been enormous advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in recent years. And there is no end in sight to this rapid development. “Ten years ago it was around ten percent of lung cancer patients to whom we were able to offer targeted therapy, today it is already around 30 percent. We can therefore identify more and more genetic changes in the tumor, and this is the group of patients who receive targeted therapies or receiving immunotherapy, it’s getting bigger and bigger. This development is unstoppable, “says the lung cancer specialist. Modern lung cancer therapeutics are also used earlier and earlier. For patients this means: a higher response rate, longer survival, significantly fewer side effects and a better quality of life.
Best protection: no smoking
On the occasion of tomorrow’s World Lung Cancer Day, Hochmair warns urgently: “Despite all the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, one should never forget that not smoking, whether active or passive, is still the best protection. 85 percent of lung cancer patients are or were smokers. “
In 2018, 2925 men and 2060 women in Austria developed a malignant lung tumor. Lung cancer was the most common cancer in men and women. 2483 men and 1570 women died from it last.
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