Published in Cancer Weekly, October 3rd, 2006
Study 1: The restaging of lung cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy was discussed.
According to a study from the United States, "The accuracy of restaging in patients with stage IIIa non-small cell lung cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is unknown. A prospective trial of patients with biopsy-proven N2 disease who underwent initial clinical staging with mediastinoscopy, integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), and CT. Patients then were clinically restaged by the same imaging techniques 4 to 12 weeks after their...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-10-03)
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