Herb Can Help Avoid Drug Resistance in Treating Lung Cancer: New Study

Lung cancer ranks as the No.1 killer of all cancers globally. The main treatment method of Western medicine for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer, is targeted therapy.
However, a thorny problem with targeted therapy is the development of drug resistance in patients.
Lee Mi-hyun, a pre-Korean medicine professor at Dongshin University in South Korea, announced on Nov. 14 that the extract of a herb “costustoot” could solve the problem of patients’ resistance to the targeted drug Osimertinib.
Lung cancer can be pathologically divided into small lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). More than 80 percent of lung cancer patients have non-small cell lung cancer, and about 50 percent of non-small cell lung cancers have mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)…. Source

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