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Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Stage IV, Relapsed, and Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Treatment of newly stage IV, relapsed, and recurrent non-small cell lung cancer may include:
- one or more chemotherapy drugs with or without targeted therapy
- combination chemotherapy followed by more chemotherapy as maintenance therapy to help keep cancer from progressing
- targeted therapy
- one or more immunotherapy drugs
Learn more about these treatments and find a list of chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy drugs for lung cancer in the Treatment Option Overview.
Use our clinical trial search to find NCI-supported cancer clinical trials that are accepting patients. You can search for trials based on the type of cancer, the age of the patient, and where the trials are being done. General information about clinical trials is also available.
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This information was sourced and adapted from Adapted from the National Cancer Institute's
Physician Data Query (PDQ®) Cancer Information Summaries on
www.cancer.gov.
This information updated
December 1, 2024.
Learn more:
- General Information About Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Stages of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Treatment Option Overview
- Treatment of Occult Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Treatment of Stage 0 (Carcinoma in Situ)
- Treatment of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Treatment of Stage II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Treatment of Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Treatment of Stage IIIB and Stage IIIC Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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- Treatment of Progressive Stage IV, Relapsed, and Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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