According to Professor Rafal Dziadziuszko, head of the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the Medical University of Gdansk, ALK+ lung cancer is diagnosed in about 5 percent of patients in Poland These are often younger people, patients are usually 35-55 years old at the time of diagnosis and are at an important point in their professional and family lives. They are often people with young children, in the midst of intense professional development. Meanwhile, they are suddenly confronted with an illness that forces them to redefine their activities in all fields of life.
The clinical course of the disease is characteristic and often different from most courses of other lung cancers.
- It is an aggressive cancer with a high incidence of pleural fluid and metastasis to the central nervous system, liver, bone and lymph nodes. Symptoms associated with the course of the disease are often due to distant metastases. These include bon...
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