Recent Advances in Lung-cancer Treatment

Abstract

In the past decades, lung cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed and fatal cancers in the world regardless of race, sex and country. Although the advocation of cigarette cessation slightly lower the incidence of lung cancer, the high mortality did not substantially drop for years. In the past two decades, the discovery of novel small-molecule targeting drugs and immune checkpoints inhibitors, the development of surgery tools and the improvement of radiotherapy protocols benefit the treatment of lung cancer. In this review, ameliorated techniques or new drugs that contributes to better efficacy of treatment will be introduced, in respect of surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy.