Recent Advances and Future Strategies for Small Cell Lung Cancer

Abstract

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a malignant tumor with a very high mortality rate. The current standard of care includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The clinical benefit of therapies was disappointing. Recently, many clinical trials about target therapy and immunotherapy are processing. This review will focus on current therapy and future research direction of SCLC.

Keywords

• Lung neoplasms
• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Target therapy
• Immunotherapy