Lung Cancer - Radiation Therapy
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 of the diagnosis and staging...
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.
...This randomized trial compared induction therapy for pathologically-proven N2/IIIA NSCLC with 3 cycles of cisplatinum and docetaxel chemotherapy alone to chemotherapy combined with 44 Gy of radiation therapy. 232 pts...
Thus far, only 3 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have compared stereotactive ablative radiotherapy (SABR) versus surgery in patients with early stage NSCLC (STARS trial, ROSEL trial, and ACOSOG Z4099 trial)....
This is an invited commentary on the article by Chang and colleagues (Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: a pooled analysis of two randomised...
This expert opinion editorial is published in JTCVS in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. Meyers and colleagues begin by emphasizing that a large randomized controlled trial (RCT)...
This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors point out that only 58 patients were enrolled from 38 centers over 66.3 months, and...
This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors focus on two key points: the difference in 3-year survival between the two treatment groups...
This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors warn to interpret the findings of the original article, that SABR is better tolerated and...
This is a letter in response to the article by Chang and colleagues. The authors begin by stating that the data from this study should be graded according to an...

