Many metastatic lung cancer patients still receive no treatment options

Outdated expectations. "Gerard and I have patients all the time saying, 'Oh, I remember my father or mother got diagnosed with lung cancer. And man, as soon as they got chemotherapy, they were gone,'" Fox said. Those patients aren't wrong – lung cancer treatment in the past came with harsh side effects and little benefit. But that's not the case for newer therapies, which in some cases have extended survival by almost seven years. That message may not be getting out, though – either to patients or to clinicians.

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