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Your doctor might recommend a clinical trial to treat your mutation. You may also receive other treatment options, like immunotherapy, during the course of treating your cancer. It is important to talk about how you can manage your symptoms and side effects.
Select the options you would like to discuss with your doctor.
Clinical Trial:
Clinical trials are carefully monitored research studies that test how well new medical approaches work. In most lung cancer trials you will either get a new drug or the standard of care.
Immunotherapy:
Immunotherapy harnesses the power of the immune system to fight the cancer. Some immunotherapy drugs require you to have certain levels of a protein in your tumor called PD-L1.
Targeted Therapy:
These drugs, often given in pill form, target mutations or markers in cancer cells by interrupting their growth and how they function.
Chemotherapy:
Chemotherapy uses intravenous drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy can also kill healthy cells and may cause side effects, which your doctor will help you manage.
Radiation Therapy:
Radiation therapy uses powerful, high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells and/or keep them from growing. Radiation is usually targeted to the chest area but for people with small-cell lung cancer, they might also get brain radiation to prevent the lung cancer from spreading to the brain.
Help Managing Symptoms:
A team of medical professionals will help you manage your symptoms and any physical or emotional side effects, so you can maintain a good quality of life.
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