Treatment of lung cancer can be done by radiation therapy, chemotherapy or surgery. Details about these is given below.
1. Radiation Therapy : This practice involves the use of high energy waves to treat the cancer tumor. These waves can break the cancer tumor to tiny sizes. Depending on the ways radiation is reached to the tumor, this therapy is of two types.
Internal radiation therapy : The waves reach to the tumor through radioactive materials being send by small sized tubes directly to the affected region of lungs.
External radiation therapy : The radiations for the treatment purpose is generated by special techniques and send to the tumor.
2. Chemotherapy : This includes the use of injections and chemical drugs for the treatment of cancer. This results into an advantage that it disinfects the whole body from cancer cells while radiation therapy treats infected portion only. New drugs and vaccines are being continously developed and tested for safe operation and effective cure of the disease.
3. Surgery : This practice is done by doctors which manually remove the cancer tumor and affected cells and tissues around it. Surgery is used to remove part of the lining of abdomen or chest. If most of the parts of the body are affected by the cancer cells, this method is not allowed as a large number of tissues cannot be removed from the body.
