small-cell lung cancer
noun
: cancer of a highly malignant form that affects the lungs, tends to metastasize to other parts of the body, and is characterized by small round or oval cells which resemble oat grains and have little cytoplasm
called also small-cell carcinoma
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Recent Examples on the Web Another tunicate, Ecteinascidia turbinata, which attaches to submerged mangrove roots, yielded the molecular mixture that led to Yondelis, a sarcoma and ovarian cancer drug, and Zepzelca, which targets small-cell lung cancer. 
Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022 Lilly had been planning to introduce Tyvyt as a treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer at a lower price than comparable treatments in the U.S., such as Merck’s Keytruda and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Peter Loftus, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022 Lengo’s molecule aims to enable treatment or prevention of brain metastases, which are a particular risk for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021 Current clinical trials exclude up to a fifth of patients with EGFR mutant non-small-cell lung cancer because each clinical trial typically focuses on only a handful of specific mutation types. Jacqulyne Robichaux, The Conversation, 25 Oct. 2021 The company also plans to initiate Phase 2a expansion studies for zotatifin, a small-molecule inhibitor for patients with breast cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer in the second half of 2021. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2021 He has just been diagnosed with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer. Amitha Kalaichandran, Wired, 26 Mar. 2021 In recent years, the researchers found, deaths from non-small cell lung cancer have decreased much more quickly than new cases, whereas small-cell lung cancer deaths have decreased at about the same rate as incidence. Norman E. Sharpless, STAT, 13 Aug. 2020 Biotechnology company IDP Pharma is developing a type of protein inhibitor to treat multiple myeloma and small-cell lung cancer. Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019 See More
Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022 Lilly had been planning to introduce Tyvyt as a treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer at a lower price than comparable treatments in the U.S., such as Merck’s Keytruda and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Peter Loftus, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022 Lengo’s molecule aims to enable treatment or prevention of brain metastases, which are a particular risk for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021 Current clinical trials exclude up to a fifth of patients with EGFR mutant non-small-cell lung cancer because each clinical trial typically focuses on only a handful of specific mutation types. Jacqulyne Robichaux, The Conversation, 25 Oct. 2021 The company also plans to initiate Phase 2a expansion studies for zotatifin, a small-molecule inhibitor for patients with breast cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer in the second half of 2021. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2021 He has just been diagnosed with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer. Amitha Kalaichandran, Wired, 26 Mar. 2021 In recent years, the researchers found, deaths from non-small cell lung cancer have decreased much more quickly than new cases, whereas small-cell lung cancer deaths have decreased at about the same rate as incidence. Norman E. Sharpless, STAT, 13 Aug. 2020 Biotechnology company IDP Pharma is developing a type of protein inhibitor to treat multiple myeloma and small-cell lung cancer. Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1975, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
small-cell lung cancer
noun
: cancer of a highly malignant form that affects the lungs, tends to metastasize to other parts of the body, and is characterized by small round or oval cells resembling oat grains and having a high ratio of nuclear protoplasm to cytoplasm
called also oat-cell cancer, oat-cell carcinoma, small-cell carcinoma, small-cell lung carcinoma