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Article: Non-small cell lung cancer: new hope for a chronic illness.(Clinical report)
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- Oncology Nursing Forum
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Since the 1980s, important advances have been made in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).The advances have doubled the cure rate, allowing more patients with NSCLC to live longer with improved quality of life. Since the 1980s, studies using "conventional chemotherapy" have shown that adjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage NSCLC can prolong survival and improve cure (Arriagada et al., 2004; Pignon et al., 2006; Pisters, 2005; Shepherd et al., 2005), that chemotherapy is superior to best supportive care (defined as aggressive symptom management, including palliative radiotherapy when indicated) in patients with advanced NSCLC (Grilli, Oxman, & Julian, 1993; ...