Lung Cancer: Standards of Care by Goetz Kloecker Susanne M. Arnold Mostafa M. Fraig and Cesar A. Perez

Author:Goetz Kloecker, Susanne M. Arnold, Mostafa M. Fraig and Cesar A. Perez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2021-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY

Postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) is a well-studied area of locally advanced lung cancer treatment but continues to be a clinical challenge. A PORT meta-analysis trialists group in 1998, using older radiation techniques, evaluated all stages of NSCLC from 9 studies including 2,128 patients.47 It showed that PORT was detrimental to overall and progression-free survival in patients with early stage completely resected NSCLC and should not be used, as illustrated in Figure 14-3A.

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