[The effectiveness of postoperative external beam radiotherapy for incompletely resected non-small cell lung cancer].
In a retrospective analysis of 150 incompletely resected NSCLC patients treated with adjuvant external beam radiotherapy 32 (21.3%) survived 3 years with no symptoms of disease. Ipsilateral mediastinal/hilar lymph node involvement and macroscopic incomplete surgery were the prognostic factors that unfavourably influenced survival in Cox's proportional hazards model. Postoperative external beam radiotherapy was the efficient adjuvant treatment method in microscopically incompletely resected NSCLC, predominantly with no nodes involvement, but had no benefit in those with macroscopic incomplete surgery.
Zakład Teleradioterapii, Centrum Onkologii, Oddział Kraków.
Tomasz
T
Walasek
Teresa
T
Kowalska
Marian
M
Reinfuss
Paweł
P
Dymek
Jerzy
J
Mituś
Piotr
P
Skotnicki
Magdalena
M
Pecak
Zbigniew
Z
Kojs
Piotr
P
Brandys
Tomasz
T
Dabrowski
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome