The following is an important article. It stated the following: Stage IIIA patient pairs with Non-small cell lung cancer demonstrated a higher overall survival for patients treated with chemo-radiation (16.5 months) versus no treatment (6.1 months; P < .0001). Similarly, Stage IV patient pairs (19,046) had a higher OS when treated with chemotherapy (9.3 months) versus no treatment (2.0 months; P < .0001). Simplifying this, you would live 10.4 months longer if you were diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and had chemotherapy and radiation (with no mention of side effects) vs. doing NOTHING, and you would live 7.3 months longer if you had stage 4 cancer and had chemotherapy and radiation, vs. doing nothing. This is a small benefit over doing NOTHING.
~ Dr. Rosenberg
The full article is available here.
healthyliving April 26th, 2017
Posted In: cancer care, Cancer Prevention
Tags: cancer survival, staage 4 cancer, stage iv cancer
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Dr. Mark Rosenberg received his doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1988 and has been involved with drug research since 1991.