Lung Cancer Therapy
Multimodal treatment effective for elderly SCLC patient
Published in Blood Weekly, February 19th, 2004
According to published research from Japan, "A 65-year-old man with limited disease-small cell lung cancer was treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy which resulted in a partial response."
"He further received high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation," noted K. Hotta and coauthors at Okayama University. "Development of non-small cell carcinoma was, however, suspected at a site of the residual nodule in cytological examination using bronchoscopy."
"He...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-02-19)
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