Personalised treatment for lung cancer – Professor Hubers

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We now can personalize or individualize the treatment in the
metastatic setting that means when the tumor has spread to the body, and we have now of course still had the option of chemotherapy and the option of a targeted treatment usually with oral drugs.

When we are looking now at a patient which has a metastasized tumor then we are looking at histology, that means how the pathologists is classifying this tumor and the specific types of
tissue and they are ranging from adenocarcinoma to squamous cell to large cell, if we are speaking about non small cell lung cancer.

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