Low-Dose CT
With the latest advanced technology, lung cancer screening can now be performed with low-dose computed tomography (low-dose CT). This screening method takes 3-dimensional x-rays of the lungs in high resolution with reduced exposure to radiation. Low-dose CT helps to:
- Detect abnormalities that could be cancerous even though they are small or obscured. Low-dose CT scanning is faster and more reliable than standard screening chest x-rays which can detect only large cancer tumors or tumors that are not hidden behind the heart, bones or lungs.
- Screen for lung cancer in the early stages so that treatment can commence before the cancer spreads to other parts of the body.
- Reduce exposure to radiation due to low-dose CT
Targeted Therapy
Cancer treatment through chemotherapy medicine can result in adverse side affects in some people. This is because the medicine may sometimes start to attack healthy cells as well as the cancer cells.
To prevent this, a new type of treatment which specifically targets only cancer cells has been developed, known as targeted therapy. This form of treatment restricts the specific cell-signaling process which causes the growth of cancer cells, while also separating the cancer cells and having as little effect on regular cells as possible. This means that there are significantly fewer side-effects resulting from targeted therapy when compared with chemotherapy medicine.