Sunday, October 16, 2005
Small cell lung cancer review
Reviews of the more vicious cancers keep on coming out in the general journals, this time a "seminar" on small cell lung cancer in Lancet. Not much to say about this but I am finding these reviews quite helpful as a non-oncologist. This one has a middle section about the history of various chemotherapy regimens for small cell which is pretty interesting. But I have to point out that even though this article doesn't have pretenses of "medical progress" like the NEJM one, there is not even a nod here to supportive--let alone palliative--care for this routinely lethal disease. Not a peep.
