A young, non-smoking woman. Active professionally, socially and with her family. It is impossible to imagine what she feels when she hears the diagnosis: lung cancer. What emotions accompany her? Shock, disbelief and a sense of injustice? Lung cancer is not coming off the podium of the most common cancers and continues to lead the way when it comes to the number of deaths from malignant cancer.
One of its subtypes, NDRP ALK+, doesn't fit in with our idea of lung cancer, as it's a crappy disease for non-smokers, young people and usually women. Detection of ALK mutations is a bad prognostic factor, characterized by a high risk of metastasis to the central nervous system. CNS metastasis occurs in nearly 40 percent of patients at the time of diagnosis. The cancer that develops in the brain causes pressure that impairs vision, mental performance, walking problems, headaches, nausea and changes the patient's personality. For the family and loved ones, this is ...
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