They release carbon dioxide a waste product of the body s cells as you breathe out each lung has sections called lobes.
Non small cell lung cancer treatment guidelines.
International evidence based guidelines jointly published by the college of american pathologists cap the international association for the study of lung cancer iaslc and the association for molecular pathology amp in 2013 recommend all lung cancer patients with adenocarcinomas should be tested for the genetic abnormalities that indicate suitability for treatment with targeted agents.
But other factors such as a person s overall health and lung function and if the cancer cells have certain gene or protein changes can also be important.
In many cases more than one of type of treatment is used.
The lungs bring oxygen into the body as you breathe in.
Non small cell lung cancer is a disease in which malignant cancer cells form in the tissues of the lung.