Lung Cancer
High-Dose Radiation Improves Lung Cancer Survival, U-M Study Finds
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 21st, 2009
Standard treatment for this stage of lung cancer -- when the tumor is likely too large to be removed through surgery -- involves a combination of radiation therapy with chemotherapy. But, this new study finds, giving chemotherapy at the same time as the radiation enhances the effect of both. Further, increasing the dose of radiation over the course of treatment also increased survival.
"When patients are diagnosed with stage III lung cancer,...
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