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Can the gamma knife be used on lung cancer03/21/2008 |
My husband was diagnosed with lung cancer. He has a tumor the size of a golf ball. Due to COPD he has only 25 - 35% lung capacity and the doctor thinks he wouldn`t survive surgery. He is 64 years old. Too bad - the tumor is perfectly round and has not metastasized. What are the likely options?
I think that with this lung capacity he may still be a surgical candidate. He would require a six minute walk and a quantitative perfusion scan to truly tell if he is a candidate or not.
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Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery Molecular, Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics College of Medicine The Ohio State University |
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