Is there a role for post-operative chemoradiation therapy in fully resected, margin-negative T3N1 NSCLC?
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Radiation Oncology · Yale School of Medicine
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I assume you're talking about T3 for chest wall invasion, and I think the answer is probably no routine role for RT for this individual risk factor. If you look at surgical series, invasion of the chest wall IS a risk factor for both positive surgical margins, and local recurrence. But if you limit ...
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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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I agree with @Dr. First Last.
While survival in resected lung cancer is dominently driven by nodal status, the utility of PORT is murky.
The principal issue appears to be a tradeoff between the appealing feature of RT in reducing local-regional recurrence, contrasted with the rather compelling data th...
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