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Advanced Treatments in Lung Cancer

At UVA Health, our experts offer the latest tools in diagnosing and treating lung cancer. Learn more at: https://uvahealth.com/services/lung-c... Transcript There are a number of different kinds of lung cancer. One would be non-small cell lung cancer. Another would be small cell lung cancer. Small cell lung cancer is a faster growing, more aggressive type of lung cancer. When I explain to patients our treatment options, specifically toward non-small cell lung cancer, I often explain we have oral medications. Immunotherapy is an infusion. It helps cells within your body, that are already trying to attack your lung cancer, do a better job of attacking your lung cancer. And then a third option that we do still use quite a bit is chemotherapy. Often, we use chemotherapy in combination with another type of medicine, most likely immunotherapy. This combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy leads to significantly improved survival, long-term survival for patients, which is ultimately our goal. A newer type of medicine that we're just now starting to use more of, and I think we'll be using more of in the future, are medicines that are called antibody-drug conjugates. The way I describe it is there’s, essentially, a missile, which is an antibody that brings a small warhead to the tumor. So that's a really promising option, right now, only a few people with lung cancer, but that might be more of an option in the future.