Is 90% treatment success for lung cancer possible?

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among men and women.

Despite the advances in treatment over the last decades, 5 year survival rate of all lung cancer patients has remained largely unchanged (%18-only 18 of 100 patients survive at the end of 5 years period ). This is mostly due to late diagnosis. At the time of diagnosis most of the patients have either locally advanced (stage 3) or metastatic disease (stage 4) .

According to lung cancer 8th staging system, if a cancer tissue is equal or smaller than 1 cm without lymph node involvement and metastasis; it is classified as stage 1A1. İf you can detect the cancer at this stage and remove it by surgery; you can have a five year survival rate of 90%.

So the most important question is “how can we detect a lung cancer in early stages?”