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Article: An integrated Chinese-Western medical treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.(Chinese Medicine Update)
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
- Author:
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Keywords: Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, oncology, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), radiation
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in both men and women in the United States, and smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. Approximately 169,400 new cases of lung cancer and 154,900 deaths from lung cancer occured in the US in 2002. (1) There are two major types of lung cancer: non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Non-small cell lung cancer is the more common of the two, affecting up to 80% of those with lung cancer. This type of lung cancer usually metastasizes to different parts of the body more slowly than ...