Empfehlungen zur Therapie des Bronchialkarzinoms

Primary lung cancer and extrapulmonary malignancy

“…In 7 patients, the diagnosis of SPLC was determined by autopsy and 2 patients died from their cancer during the time of diagnostics. Treatment strategies were planned according to the interdisciplinary guidelines of the Cancer Center Halle [5] following the recommendations on the therapy of bronchial carcinoma of the German Association of Thoracic Surgery [6]. The treatment of the patients depended on the tumor staging, histology and functional status.…”

Survival of Patients in Clinical Stages I–IIIb of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy Alone

“…Under palliative intention doses of 30-40 Gy are considered to be sufficient, doses of ≥ 50 Gy are not applied. For curatively intented radiation therapies, however, doses of at least 60 Gy are required [7,31]. Information on dose was available from all 188 patients.…”

Value of F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography after induction therapy of locally advanced bronchogenic carcinoma

“…It appears to improve prognosis, and different protocols are currently being investigated in prospective trials. 1 The response to neoadjuvant therapy is commonly assessed by means of anatomic imaging to document the change in size of malignant lesions. This fails to provide information on the biologic behavior of residual masses (eg, tumor viability).…”