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Ashish Saxena

Ashish Saxena

Thoracic medical oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine; Section Chief of the Thoracic Medical Oncology Service, specializing in lung cancer and small cell lung cancer research and care.

Sep 17, 2026

7:27
What are some of these newer treatment approaches giving researchers more hope today?
7:33
For a long time, sort of chemotherapy was the main treatment option and that really all there was.
7:38
You know, it's been historically difficult to treat this type of cancer.
7:42
It grows quickly and spreads quickly.
7:45
And so we just were kind of stuck with chemotherapy for a long time.
7:50
And then sort of the most common Game-changing, I would say, treatment was the introduction of immunotherapy, which are treatments that we give that help your own immune system to also attack the cancer.
8:01
And that's where we started to make progress, harnessing the immune system to also kill the cancer cells, along with chemotherapy.
10:12
What has research taught us about introducing that care earlier?

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