Lung Cancer metastatis

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Asked for Female, 51 Years

My Aunt is suffering from Lung Cancer metastatis. She is in Chemo therapy. We want to try to Immunotherapy. Could be help with howmuch cost it will be (in UK)? how effective it will be? Life span/success rate? Side effects

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Dr. Ninad V Katdare Surgical Oncologist 22 yrs exp Mumbai Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Ninad V Katdare

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Immunotherapy if you mean stem cells and transplants, is not proven in lung cancer. However if the patient has adenocarcinoma she can be evaluated for the egfr, alk4, pdl1 mutations etc and can then be started on targeted therapies which have a much better result in lung cancer

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