Every year, 50,000 cases of lung cancer are detected in France. This form of cancer is the second most common in the world with 1.8 million deaths each year on the planet.
A treatment for the disease, coupled with post-operative chemotherapy, was presented in Chicago as part of the annual Cancer Congress. Taken in tablet form every day after surgery, it halves the risk of death for some patients, especially those with a specific genetic mutation. The treatment is already prescribed in France, but only for advanced lung cancers.