The Treatment
The foregoing study is designed to determine whether there has been limited (limited disease) or extensive disease (extensive disease).
When there is a very small tumor without signs of metastasis following surgical treatment in which the tumor with surrounding tissue is removed, followed by chemotherapy. This happens to any very small metastases, which surveys are not available, to eradicate. Often the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer after the operation set.
Almost never is surgical removal of the tumor as possible, because too many metastases, and treatment with chemotherapy is the standard treatment. Typically this involves 5 or 6 courses of a combination of different cell-killing drugs. If the disease is confined to the chest is often selected for a simultaneous treatment of chemotherapy with radiotherapy, sometimes first chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy (EBRT) in the tumor and lymph nodes in the chest and head. The latter is needed because drugs are not properly penetrate the brains and possibly present microscopic metastases do not be eradicated. (see also: Chemotherapy).
