据美国国家肿瘤研究所(NCI)海军医用肿瘤学分部主任John Minna说,某些新的生物学发现使防治肺癌的前景第一次显得更为美好。他在第四届国际肿瘤辅助疗法的会议上称,目前对肺癌远景的估计不同于上次会议中普遍抱有的悲观态度。在1984年,从生物学上已充分认识到正在研究有效的疗法或在短期内就将从事于研究。生物学方面有三项具有潜在临床实用价值的新认识。首先,在体外能培养肺癌细胞,这 According to John Minna, director of the Naval Medical Oncology Division at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), some new biological discoveries have made the prospects for lung cancer better for the first time. At the Fourth International Conference on Oncology Therapy, he said that the current assessment of lung cancer prospects is different from the pessimism commonly held in the last meeting. In 1984, it was biologically well-recognized that effective treatments were being studied or that they would be engaged in research in the short term. There are three new insights in biology that have potential clinical utility. First, lung cancer cells can be cultured in vitro.