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Air Force General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lung cancer patient outcome after stereotactic body radiation therapy may be promising

Published in Medical Device Business Week, November 1st, 2006

Patients with inoperable Stage I/II non-small-cell lung cancer treated by stereotactic body radiation therapy experienced promising local control and survival.

According to a recent article published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, scientists in the People's Republic of China conducted a study "to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy in patients with Stage I/II non-small-cell lung cancer. Forty-three patients with inoperable Stage I/II non-small-cell lung cancer underwent treatment prospectively using the stereotactic gamma-ray whole-body therapeutic system (body gamma-knife...

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