The 5 Main Lung Cancer Treatment Types
In this video, lung oncologists Kevin Sullivan, MD, and Jorge Gomez, MD, discuss the main treatment options for lung cancer.
Getting a lung cancer diagnosis today is much different than it was 15, 10, even five years ago. “We have seen an explosion of new treatment modalities that have become available for the treatment of lung cancer,” says Kevin Sullivan, MD, a lung oncologist at Monter Cancer Center, Northwell Health. “For patients that have received a lung cancer diagnosis, they have every reason to be hopeful.”
- Kevin Sullivan, MDDr. Sullivan is a lung oncologist at Monter Cancer Center, Northwell Health.
- Jorge Gomez, MDDr. Gomez is a Hematologist and Oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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