Dr. Dean Joseph Conterato, MD

In my opinion it might be used along with chemotherapy and/or radiation but studies suggest worse survival in patients who use natural medicines instead of well studied treatments such as chemotherapy or radiaiton

Survival is improved with the addition of radiation during the first or second cycle of chemotherapy (randomized studies have proven this with high certainty). You should get radiation.

PET scans are recommended as a follow-up exam to verify response to intitial treatment and are usually done at least 12 weeks after radiatioin has been completed. If you have had one done after the treatment was complete and it was negative then I would only recommend a PET scan if I was concerned about some symptoms that you are having

Have you ever seen a dermatologist? If not, it would be reasonable for you to have this evaluated by a dermatologist. Because the lesion changes in size and shape does not necessarily mean its malignancy but it does suggest he should have it checked

Stage IV lung cancer is not curable, however there has been rapid Development of new drugs such as immunotherapy agents or other biologic drugs which have dramatically improve the survival duration and quality of life the patient was stage IV lung cancer in many but not all cases.

Additionally, if stage IV disease involves the brain, stereotactic brain radiation can eradicate disease in the brain if it is of limited extent.

No, generally, people do develop pneumonia when part of The lung gets blocked off by a tumor. I do not think there is any evidence that pneumonia can cause lung cancer.

Radiation treatments to your mouth and especially the jaw would make healing much more difficult and risk having some of the bone die. Usually, I would request that the dentist call me and discuss what work is to be done.