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Targeted therapy in lung cancer: Are we closing the gap in years of life lost?

David J BenjaminAlyson HaslamJenny GillVinay Prasad
Published in: Cancer medicine (2022)
Although targeted therapies have paved the way for significant progress toward providing a survival benefit to many young patients with advanced NSCLC with actionable mutations, it is evident that these therapies still leave a wide gap in the YLL in these younger patients compared to generally older individuals with advanced NSCLC without targetable mutations.
Keyphrases
  • small cell lung cancer
  • end stage renal disease
  • newly diagnosed
  • ejection fraction
  • chronic kidney disease
  • advanced non small cell lung cancer
  • middle aged
  • prognostic factors
  • physical activity
  • brain metastases