Prevention and prediction: Understanding how lung cancer progresses

Treating the brain with a preventative course of radiation may help small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients — whose tumors often spread to their brain — live longer, according to a new study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A separate study revealed that the most commonly-targeted mutation of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is most likely to result in progression at the primary site.
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