Current Challenges and Future Advances in Lung Cancer: Genetics, Instrumental Diagnosis and Treatment

Lung cancer is a malignancy with a poor prognosis, with only 20% of patients having an overall survival longer than five years from diagnosis, and this prognosis has still not significantly improved despite developments in understanding the genetic evolution of lung cancer; improvements in the accuracy of diagnostic procedures; and refinements in the treatments with multimodal regimens, including surgery, radiotherapy and systemic therapy (chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy) ....