Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Questions

There are other modalities of management available too apart from sorafenib alone. For that patient needs to get evaluated for staging of the disease and other parameters.

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It indicated that the damage to lung tissue by covid-19 could be reversible for the common covid-19 patients.
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Dear user, it is not necessary that only exposure to smoke causes lung cancer. There have been cases where people who are not exposed to smoke or cigarettes in any form but they have lung cancer. It is completely based on genetics and the body's immunity. You can consult me for more doubts regarding this online by clicking on my photo and booking an appointment however, if you found my answer helpful, please leave a positive feedback as it helps me with my practice. Thank you.

Schwanoma are the tumor which arises from nervous system from schwan cell of nerve,, it is generally benign means it not become cancerous

Hi lybrate-user can you name the pain killer tablet he is using and the frequency. So that we can add another or change the frequency
as pain control is very important in malignancy.
Need to titrate the doses and add different groups of medicines for pain.

Hello.
Grade 4 tumor. I believe that you are talking about glioblastoma.
Opinion on this will need proper histopath report of initial specimen. As well as fresh scan report to be seen.
I would like to know only brand is changed or active medication is also changed for him.

आमतौर पर स्टेज 1 और स्टेज 2 में सर्जरी की जाती है, जबकि स्टेज 3 और स्टेज 4 में सर्जरी, कीमो और रेडिएशन में से किन्हीं दो का कॉम्बिनेशन इस्तेमाल किया जाता है। कौन-से दो तरीके इस्तेमाल होंगे, यह मरीज की हालत देखकर डॉक्टर तय करते हैं।
aap mujhe call kar sakte hain taki aapki problem ko details mein samajhkar treatment btaya ja sake.

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After 2–5 years: the risk of stroke drops to that of someone who does not smoke, according to the cdc. After 5–15 years: the risk of mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder cancer is reduced by half. After 10 years: the risk of lung cancer and bladder cancer is half that of someone who currently smokes.
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Yes. This may happen in some cases. Typically after 6 cycles of double agent chemotherapy we keep patient on maintainance therapy with pemetrexed till disease progression. Else pt will need to be put on 2 nd line chemotherapy or immunotherapy. Other options include oral targeted therapy if she is positive for either of mutations like egfr, alk, ros 1, met, braf which can be checked on biopsy tissue.

Hello . Though cancer has a tendency for genetic transmission. Still its not necessary that every genetic disease will appear in further generation .There are medicines in Homeopathy , which can reduce the chances of genetic transmission of any disease . For further details you can ask me through private questions.