Title

Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Authors

Rita S. Axelrod, MD, Thomas Jefferson University HospitalFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

4-13-2011

Comments

Overall Goals and Objectives:

1. To be familiar with new staging for advanced and metastatic NSCLC

2. To be familiar with molecular characteristics of non small cell lung cancer that influence treatment

3. To be familiar with evolving strategies in treatment of lung cancer for adjuvant therapy and maintenance therapy.

Abstract

Dr. Rita Axelrod is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medical Oncology and Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She is also the Director of the Jefferson Oncology Group and Mentor of the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship. From 2005 through 2010, she was awarded "Top Doc" in Philadelphia Magazine and she was also awarded "Outstanding Clinical Award" from the Kimmel Cancer Center Castle Connelly. Her research interests are the diagnosis and treatment of thoracic, head and neck cancers.

Recommended Citation

Axelrod, MD, Rita S., "Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer" (2011). Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Presentations and Grand Rounds. Presentation 13.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/pulmcritcaregrandrounds/13