Have lung cancer tested: targeted therapy possible. German Cancer Society: ALK inhibitor used to treat lung cancer has exactly this effect on the tumor.
Patients with cancer should always be examined for genetic changes in tumor cells, says Dr. Jan Stratmann, specialist in internal medicine and oncologist at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main. The pioneer of this type of tumor treatment was and is chronic myeloid leukemia, whose cancer therapy concept used targeted substances. Dr. Stratman: "We now treat many tumor diseases such as breast cancer, bile duct cancer, brain tumors, salivary gland tumors, stomach cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer with targeted substances"