Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Options

At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we understand how overwhelming it is to be diagnosed with lung cancer. You may be taking in a lot of information about the disease and trying to determine your options for treatment.

When you come to one of our state-of-the-art cancer hospitals, you’ll meet with a team of lung cancer experts that will talk to you about your diagnosis and explain your treatment options in terms that you can understand. Your team of doctors and other clinicians will help you create an integrated lung cancer treatment plan suited to your unique needs.

Lung cancer treatment options at CTCA include, but are not limited to:

• Surgery – Your doctors at CTCA will help you determine if lung cancer surgery is an option for you, and if so, can establish which type of surgery will best treat the cancer.
• Chemotherapy – Chemotherapy involves the use of anti-cancer drugs. Your team at CTCA can use innovative methods to deliver chemotherapy that minimize treatment side effects like nausea.
• Radiation – Your doctors may recommend either internal or external radiation, or both.
• Targeted Drug Therapy – This type of cancer treatment involves targeted drugs that interfere with cancer cell growth while sparing healthy tissue.
• Innovative Therapies – Our advanced. navigational bronchoscopy technology helps us to diagnose and treat cancer anywhere in the lungs. With high-dose rate brachytherapy, radiation is tightly contained within the lung tumor. Another advanced radiation treatment technology called TomoTherapy^® HI-ART delivers precise, pinpointed radiation treatment to lung tumors. It can be used to retreat previously radiated areas that have a recurrent tumor with high doses of radiation.
• Complementary Lung Cancer Treatments – Complementary or alternative treatments at CTCA include nutrition therapy, naturopathic medicine, mind-body medicine, spiritual support, pain management, chiropractic support, and physical therapy.

Discover Integrative Cancer Care

Our lung cancer experts practice integrative treatment. This means our doctors and other clinicians work together, providing comprehensive treatment that’s best suited to each patient’s unique needs. We treat the whole person—body, mind and spirit. Furthermore, we believe that you should be at the center of your treatment and that you should be equipped to make informed decisions about your healthcare.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with lung cancer and would like to learn more about our innovative treatment approach at CTCA, please call us at 1-800-615-3055 to speak with one of our friendly and helpful Oncology Information Specialists. You can also chat with us online anytime.