Does standard chemo treat bone metastasis?

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General NSCLC

March 17, 2018 at 8:12 am #1294101

masalovai
I have stage 4 NSCLC adenocarcinoma with bone metastasis. I started carboplatin Alimta Avastin chemo treatment and wondering if this triplet is effectively treating bone metastasis as well….. I am also receiving zoledronic acid every three weeks , but it does treat bone mets.

There are very limited publications related to effectiveness of standard chemo on bone metastasis. I’ve found that targeted drugs such Erlotinib and gifatinib are very effective in treating bone metastasis.

Video Presentation on Second Line Chemo for Advanced NSCLC

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One of the core issues in managing advanced NSCLC is second line chemotherapy, which was established as improving survival several years ago. This video presentation provides a brief summary of the work that led to the common use of chemotherapy in previously treated patients. Most typically, this is taxotere (docetaxel) or alimta (pemetrexed), and this presentation describes why we focus most commonly on these chemo agents.

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