State-of-the-art lung cancer radiation therapy

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1353-1363 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Belderbos ◽  
Jan Jakob Sonke
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
State Of The Art

scholarly journals State of the Art Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer 2012: A Glimpse of the Future

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Ruysscher ◽  
José Belderbos ◽  
Bart Reymen ◽  
Wouter van Elmpt ◽  
Angela van Baardwijk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals State of the art in the treatment of lung cancer

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Jeremic
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
World Wide ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Targeted Agents ◽  
Lung Cancer Patients ◽  
The Past ◽  
Incurable Disease

<p>Lung cancer is the major cancer killer in both sexes. Despite many biological and technological achievements, it is still mostly an incurable disease, and survival figures are only modestly improved in the past few decades. Optimisation of treatment is usually sought through clinical studies, but unfortunately only a few per cent of lung cancer patients enter these world-wide. So it is in spite of the fact that we have witnessed the introduction of robotic surgery, computerised radiation therapy and targeted agents in daily clinical practice. More emphasis on clinical research is therefore needed to improve our capability to successfully treat lung cancer.</p>

STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY FOR EARLY-STAGE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-644
Author(s):  
Andrey Arsenev ◽  
Sergey Novikov ◽  
Sergey Kanaev ◽  
Anton Barchuk ◽  
Andrey Nefedov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Small Cell Lung Cancer ◽  
Cell Lung Cancer ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Small Cell Lung ◽  
Stereotactic Radiation ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Surgical Methods

An active introduction of screening programs potentially leads to a significant increase in the proportion of patients with early forms of non-small cell lung cancer. Surgical treatment, which is the standard of care for localized forms, due to functional limitations can be performed only in 65-70% of patients. The solution to this problem can be found in the improvement of the results of radiotherapy by using modern equipment, the planning systems, improved fractionation schemes and introduction of methods for summing radiation doses. Stereotactic radiotherapy allows high-precision delivery of high radiation dose to tumor with a minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissues. In this literature review based on the analysis of a large number of publications we show that it is not yet possible to make valid conclusions about the effectiveness and safety of stereotactic radiation therapy as an alternative to the surgical methods. It is necessary to plan and conduct randomized trials without further delay taking into account the expected high relevance of the method.

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