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Cancer

 Lung Cancer

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At UT Southwestern Medical Center, people with lung cancer are treated by a multidisciplinary team of experts whose work is devoted to improving survival and quality of life for lung cancer patients. This multi-disciplinary approach offers each patient his or her best opportunity for success. 

For lung cancers that have not spread beyond the lung, surgery is usually the best treatment. 

When surgery is not the best option available, our radiation oncologists will use specialized radiation and imaging technologies - Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT); or Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) -  to precisely target lung cancers while sparing the surrounding normal lung and other chest tissues.

For patients whose lung cancers are more advanced, a program of chemotherapy after surgery is frequently used. 

For those patients whose lung cancer has spread, our doctors are national leaders in administering chemotherapy and are developing new targeted therapies as part of clinical trials. 

Please visit the Health Library to learn more about lung cancer.

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