Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Molecular Diagnosis of Lung Cancer Cover

Abstract

Lung cancer is still the leading cancer-related cause of death with a high incidence rate in the whole world. Treatment options – surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, depending on the stage of the disease. During the last decade, many molecular alterations were discovered that led to impressive changes in treatment. Personalized approaches, including target therapies with specific inhibitor drugs, became a part of the standard therapies. This article reviews current molecular biomarkers used in clinical practice to treat lung cancer patients.

Language: English
Page range: 98 - 103
Submitted on: Jan 16, 2018
|
Accepted on: Feb 27, 2018
|
Published on: Jun 30, 2018
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2018 Savelina L. Popovska, Tereza B. Dineva, Polina D. Damyanova, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.