Can Lung Cancer be cured

Answer 1

This is a difficult question because the solution is often yes or no depending upon how you define cure because hope is so important within the setting of cancer.

Long-term survival with lung cancer is usually possible, especially when the disease is caught within the early stages, or if an advanced lung cancer responds to targeted therapies or immunotherapy. Some people survive a few years even with stage 4 lung cancer. Even if lung cancer isn't curable, it's nearly always treatable. And it isn't just that advanced lung cancer is curable. The new treatment options often have a few side effects. There's always an opportunity (in some cases this is often very small) that lung cancer can recur, even a few years after it's originally found. The longer someone lives without evidence of cancer (no evidence of cancer is usually simply called NED). When lung cancer is not spread to the lymph nodes and blood vessels in the early stage that can be cured.