Second lung cancer following radiation therapy of locally advanced pulmonary cancer.
Three cases of second primary lung cancer following radiation therapy to the first pulmonary cancer were reported. In all cases, the first cancers located in the upper lobe and were unresectable diseases, their histologic type being epidermoid carcinoma. Radiation therapy was given with total doses of 60-70 Gy. Ten years later the second cancers arose in the contralateral lung and were treated with radiation therapy again.
Furuta
M
M
Department of Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hayakawa
K
K
Mitsuhashi
N
N
Saito
Y
Y
Niibe
H
H
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000209:etiology*; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000209:etiology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000209:etiology*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*