• Curr Treat Options Oncol · Aug 2017

    Review

    Treatment of Lung Carcinosarcoma and Other Rare Histologic Subtypes of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.

    • Han Yang, Yongbin Lin, and Ying Liang.
    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
    • Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2017 Aug 10; 18 (9): 54.

    Opinion StatementLung carcinosarcoma (PCS) and other histological subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer, such as primary pulmonary lymphoma (PPL), pulmonary carcinoid (PC), and primary pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC), are rare. For their low incidence, the diagnosis and treatment are still controversial. Some patients only need surgery, while others may need chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or targeted therapy. In this paper, we retrospectively reviewed the literature of some rare histological subtype of NSCLC for the recent 20 years, and try to get some conclusions.

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