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SCLC is one of the two major types of lung cancer, and although it used to be taught as comprising 25% of lung cancer cases, in the last 15 years that has dropped to 20%, then 15%, and now below th...
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While progress in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) has been slow, over the past few years there have been leads in management of extensive disease that have introduced a potential change in the standa...
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Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation (PCI) is established as a treatment approach for patients with LD-SCLC who have had a complete or “good partial” response to chemo and radiation.
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The value of maintenance therapy has been tested in ED-SCLC, where treatment with initial standard doublet chemo was followed immediately by single-agent “maintenance chemotherapy”, in hopes of del...
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SCLC is typically sensitive to chemo and radiation initially, but it tends to be considerably less responsive after recurrence. Unfortunately, most SCLC patients, or about 75-80% of patients with L...
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What I Really Do: Extensive Disease SCLC
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Patients with SCLC very often have a nice response to chemo, so much so that we can often tell by how a person is doing clinically that they’re responding. They may start gaining weight after weeks...
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What Do I Really Do: Relapsed SCLC
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he treatment of relapsed SCLC isn’t especially controversial, because this is an area where there aren’t enough breakthroughs. In someone fit enough to perform their own activities of daily living ...
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