Big Changes in Treatment of Lung Cancer ; More Patients to Get Surgery, Therapy

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Thousands more lung cancer patients each year could be offered surgery or other aggressive therapy under a new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in the past.

It is the first big overhaul of a decades-old method used to predict survival and help determine whether a lung cancer patient will have surgery, chemotherapy or be treated at all.

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Big Changes in Treatment of Lung Cancer ; More Patients to Get Surgery, Therapy

The new guidance is to be presented at a conference of lung cancer specialists in Seoul, South K...

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