ISSSTE applies innovative treatments for lung cancer patients

#InstitutoDeSeguridadYServiciosSocialesDeLosTrabajadoresDelEstado.- The Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (Issste), through the Centro Médico Nacional (CMN) «20 de Noviembre», has innovative treatments that have made it possible to better control some variants of lung cancer and increase patients’ survival by up to four years.

On the occasion of National Lung Cancer Day, medical oncologist Fernando Aldaco Sarvide stressed that this disease causes the death of one out of every 10 people who die from malignant tumors in Mexico.

He pointed out that the new treatment modalities are immunotherapies that activate the immune system to attack the cancer and tyrosine kinase inhibitor drugs (TKIs), which combat variants of the disease related to certain mutations.

He explained that lung cancer involves many diseases. Among these, there are those that have a mutation called driver that is susceptible to control with an oral drug.

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