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2. Treatment of lung cancer - Wikipedia

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   Chemotherapy for NSCLC usually includes combination of two drugs (chemotherapy doublet), with one of the agents is cisplatin or carboplatin. In 2002, Schiller at al. published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a study that compared four chemotherapy regimens for advanced NSCLC, cisplatin and paclitaxel, cisplatin and gemcitabine, cisplatin and docetaxel, and carboplatin and paclitaxel. [14]

3. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   Nausea and vomiting are two of the most feared cancer treatment-related side-effects for people with cancer and their families. In 1983, Coates et al. found that people receiving chemotherapy ranked nausea and vomiting as the first and second most severe side-effects, respectively. [98]

4. Docetaxel - Wikipedia

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   Docetaxel (DTX or DXL), sold under the brand name Taxotere among others, is a chemotherapy medication used to treat a number of types of cancer. [6] This includes breast cancer, head and neck cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer. [7]

5. Lung cancer pill outperforms chemotherapy in clinical trials

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   Story at a glance Lung cancer treatments include immunotherapy, chemotherapy and drugs given orally. ... at 28 percent versus 13 percent for chemotherapy patients. Side effects included diarrhea ...

6. Nivolumab - Wikipedia

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   In trials for lung cancer, the following side effects occurred in more than 10% of subjects and more frequently than with chemotherapy alone: fatigue, weakness, edema, fever, chest pain, generalized pain, shortness of breath, cough, muscle and joint pain, decreased appetite, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, constipation, weight loss, rash ...

7. Lung cancer - Wikipedia

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   Lung cancer is the most diagnosed and deadliest cancer worldwide, with 2.2 million cases in 2020 resulting in 1.8 million deaths. [3] Lung cancer is rare in those younger than 40; the average age at diagnosis is 70 years, and the average age at death 72. [2] Incidence and outcomes vary widely across the world, depending on patterns of tobacco use.