Lung Cancer - Radiation Therapy
Lung cancer has the highest worldwide cancer mortality rate. Early non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 84 percent of cases, with curative surgical intervention being the standard treatment. The authors of this paper explore the...
Lung cancer has the highest worldwide cancer mortality rate. Early non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 84 percent of cases, with curative surgical intervention being the standard treatment. The authors...
A new expert consensus on diagnosis, staging, and therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients has been released. The experts recommend CT and PET imaging as a necessary part...
An open-access detailed editorial from the official periodical of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
...A scholarly and sober narrative review on , as the authors state, a ‘ hot topic’ that is already being debated in Multidisciplinary Meetings and Lung Cnacer Boards.
...Eric Lim of the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK, discusses the future of general thoracic surgery in the context of a rapid rise of competing radiotherapy technology. He demonstrates...
Weder and colleagues present a debate addressing surgery versus stereotactic body radiotherapy as the primary treatment of early-stage lung cancer. Arguments relating to outcome and the impact on further therapy...
Using propensity score matching, patients with clinical stage I NSCLC who underwent either VATS lobectomy or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) were compared for long-term outcomes. Among 37 matched pairs, tumor...
The author describes the growing role of SBRT in lung cancer therapy and the growing role of radiation oncologists in decision-making regarding lung cancer. The cautionary note is that surgeons...
The authors used data from the NCDB to assess long-term outcomes after SBRT (1,781) or lobectomy (13,562) for clinical stage I NSCLC in patients without important co-morbidities. Overall survival was...
Retrospective study of surgery versus SBRT for clinical stage I NSCLC using the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB). Propensity score matching was used to create 5355 matched pairs. In that...
The goal of this study was to present the changes in pulmonary function after SBRT in 127 patients with clinical stage I NSCLC or a single lung metastasis. These patients...
A large retrospective study comparing 117618 patients from the National Cancer Database with Stage I NSCLC. 111731 received surgery, 5887 received SBRT. In a propensity managed comparison, those undergoing surgery...


