Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer

For extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, in general, what is your recommended chemotherapy regimen?

A 60-year-old woman with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer has a partial response to carboplatin/ etoposide chemotherapy. Four months later, she starts to show progression of disease and her performance status is still adequate for her to tolerate chemotherapy. Which would be your likely second-line treatment of choice?

Would you generally recommend prophylactic cranial irradiation for a 60-year-old woman with good performance status and small cell lung cancer who has a good partial response to her treatment under the following circumstances?

Would you generally recommend prophylactic cranial irradiation for a 60-year-old woman with good performance status and small cell lung cancer who has a good partial response to her treatment under the following circumstances?

Bevacizumab will eventually have a role in the treatment of: