Is Lung Cancer Curable Now!

With better drugs and Artificial Intelligence, it has become easier to cure lung cancer.

- Dr Ullas Batra

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed worldwide. Unfortunately, it is also a cancer in which survival rates are the lowest. The poor prognosis of lung cancer could be attributed to the diagnosis of the disease at an advanced stage (It is seen only 15 per cent of the cases are diagnosed at early stages). Till very recently, the treatment of lung cancer followed onesize-fits-all approach with all the patients getting similar chemotherapy regimens. These regimens were not only toxic but also associated with very short duration of response. The median survival of an advanced stage lung cancer patient was 10-14 months. Also, it was widely believed that lung cancer is a disease of smokers and of elderly men.