Lung Cancer

We aim to support all lung cancer patients at Verita Life with a personalised, integrative care model designed around you and your individual case. Our expert team will take into consideration the patient’s specific lung cancer diagnosis, disease progression, overall health, and personal goals moving forward.

Verita Life uses a combination of conventional lung cancer treatments alongside supportive therapy options to increase the patient’s chances of successful treatment. We prioritise options that can assist with comfort, resilience, and overall quality of life as part of a broader cancer care programme.

Like many cancers, lung cancer is not limited to a single type - all of which require different approaches to treatment and therapy. Some of the lung cancers we treat include:

Lung cancer often causes no symptoms until it has grown, which is why many cases are found late or on a scan done for another reason. Signs and symptoms can include:

• A cough that does not go away or gets worse over time
• Chest discomfort or pain
• Trouble breathing, or wheezing
• Blood in the sputum coughed up from the lungs
• Hoarseness
• Loss of appetite, or weight loss for no known reason
• Fatigue
• Trouble swallowing, or swelling in the face or the veins in the neck

These symptoms are more often caused by something other than lung cancer. A cough or breathlessness that persists for more than three weeks should be checked.

The stage describes the size of the tumour, whether nearby lymph nodes are involved, and whether the cancer has spread beyond the lung. Small cell lung cancer is often described more simply as limited or extensive.

Occult cancer is found in sputum but not yet visible on imaging. Stage 0 is abnormal cells in the airway lining. Stages I to III are cancers of increasing size and lymph-node involvement within the chest. Stage IV has spread to the other lung, the fluid around the lung or heart, or distant organs such as the brain, bones, or liver.

Biomarker tests on the tumour (for example EGFR, ALK, or PD-L1) now matter as much as the stage in choosing treatment.

Lung cancer treatment depends on the type, the stage, the tumour’s biomarkers, and your lung function and overall health. An oncology team plans it, often combining several of the treatments below. Verita Life does not replace this care. Our therapies are designed to support it.

Surgery

Removal of the tumour with part or all of a lung, used for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer when the person is fit enough for the operation.

Radiation therapy

High-energy beams aimed at the tumour, used on its own for early cancers in people who cannot have surgery, with chemotherapy for locally advanced disease, and to relieve symptoms.

Chemotherapy

Medicines that kill fast-growing cells, the mainstay for small cell lung cancer and used before or after surgery, with radiation, or for advanced disease in non-small cell lung cancer.

Targeted therapy

Tablets that block specific changes in the cancer cells, such as EGFR or ALK mutations, for tumours that carry them.

Immunotherapy

Medicines that help the immune system recognise and attack the cancer, now standard for many advanced lung cancers and increasingly used with surgery or radiation.

Laser and photodynamic therapy

Light-based treatments used to open a blocked airway or treat very small tumours on the airway lining.

Our integrative lung cancer care model

Lung cancer support from Verita Life combines intricate assessment, ongoing review, and adaptable care planning in order to ensure each programme is personalised to each patient, and adaptable throughout the treatment process.

Why patients choose Verita Life for lung cancer care

• International cancer care standards: Our experienced medical professionals work together to provide patient-focused programmes at the highest, international standards.
• Integrative treatment philosophy: Verita Life combines traditional and complementary therapies to support wellbeing alongside medical care.
• Individually designed programmes: Our team will work together to create a care plan shaped around your diagnosis, health status, and personal goals.
• Supportive clinical environment: We are here to answer any questions, help educate patients and family members about complex conditions, and provide emotional support from the very first day of treatment.

Treatment for lung cancer care at Verita Life

Verita Life’s integrative lung cancer treatments incorporate medically-backed traditional therapies with holistic therapies designed to complement conventional care. Our lung cancer treatments include:

Metronomic Therapy

Metronomic chemotherapy is an approach to cancer treatment in which chemotherapy is given at a lower dose, but more frequently and with shorter or no extended breaks between treatments.

Metabolic Treatment

Metabolic approaches investigate how cancer cells obtain and use energy and nutrients. Cancer cells behave very differently to healthy cells, often heavily relying on glucose and alter their metabolic pathways in order to grow more rapidly than healthy cells. This is a broad area of research, not a single established treatment or diet and at Verita Life we use metabolic approaches within our wider, personalised treatment plans.

Local Body Hyperthermia

Local body hyperthermia is a type of integrative therapy designed to work alongside both integrative oncology care and conventional cancer treatments. Local body hyperthermia is a targeted heat-based therapy that delivers controlled heat to specific areas of the body.

IPT & Low-Dose Chemotherapy

Insulin potentiation therapy, or IPT, uses insulin alongside lower doses of chemotherapy as part of an integrative cancer treatment approach.

Herbal Cancer Therapy

Following years of research, our medical team have developed specific herbal treatment protocols to address varying types of tumours. We use proven compounds that stem from all natural herbal ingredients such as curcumin, quercetin and other anti-cancer therapies.

Biological Treatment

Biological treatments are supportive regimens that can sometimes fall under immunotherapy due to their nature, and work by harnessing the body's natural immune system or targeting precise molecular pathways involved in cancer growth.

Natural Killer Cell Therapy

Natural Killer (NK) cells are a type of lymphocyte, or white blood cell, that play a major role in the immune system by targeting and killing infected cells and cancer cells.