The present invention provides methods for treating a human patient afflicted with unresectable, advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer comprising periodically administering to the human patient chemotherapy' comprising an amount of docetaxel; and 640mg of an anti-clusterin oligonucleotide having the sequence CAGCAGCAGAGTCTTCATCAT (SEQ ID NO: 1 ), wherein the anti-clusterin oligonucleotide has a phosphorothioate backbone throughout, has sugar moieties of nucleotides 1-4 and 18-21 bearing 2'-0-methoxyethyl modifications, has nucleotides 5-17 which are 2'deoxynucleotides, and has 5-methylcytosines at nucleotides 1, 4, and 19, thereby treating the human patient afflicted with unresectable, advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. The present invention also provides compositions and combinations, packages, and uses thereof for treating a human patient afflicted with unresectable, advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.