Prophylactic lung irradiation in the treatment of osteogenic sarcoma.
A minimum 52 month follow-up is recorded, in a series of 14 patients with classical osteogenic sarcoma treated by limb irradiation followed in the last 2 1/2 weeks of their therapy by prophylactic lung irradiation. Six of these 14 patients survived for more than 52 months.
D005121:Extremities; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013997:Time Factors