Bumrungrad International Hospital
Lung cancer treatment is performed at Bumrungrad Pulmonary Center. Before the assigning treatment tactic, a patient needs to undergo complete diagnostics. It takes approx. 7 days on in- or outpatient basis. Only then a team of specialists decides what treatment option is the most effective.
Such therapies can be applied: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy. The most preferable is a combination therapy when several treatment variants are applied.
The treatment duration depends on the cancer stage. On average, the chemotherapy takes 2-3 months. In case of surgical intervention, a patient is hospitalized for 5-14 days. The surgery (removal of the lung part) takes up to 3 hours.