Radiation therapy alone in elderly with early stage non-small cell lung cancer

Lung Cancer : Journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Sol San JoséFerran Guedea

Abstract

Radiation therapy (RT) alone is frequently used in elderly patients with medically inoperable early stage (I/II) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We retrospectively investigated the effectiveness of RT alone in this patient population treated in our institution. Between 1995 and 1999, a total of 33 patients were treated with RT alone in our institution, all being males. RT doses ranged 66-78 Gy (median, 70 Gy) using standard fractionation (2.0 Gy per fraction). The age range was 71-97 years (median, 75 years) with 11 patients being >or=80 years old. Twenty-two (67%) patients had a squamous cell carcinoma. There were 24 (73%) stage I and nine (27%) stage II patients. Radiographic objective response rate was observed in 23 (70%) patients. The median survival time was 37.4 months and 3-year survival time was 50%, while the median cause-specific survival time was 48.1 months and a 3-year cause-specific survival rate was 55.3%. The median time to local recurrence was 36.8 months and a 3-year local recurrence-free survival rate was 50.2%, while the median time to distant metastasis was not achieved yet, the 3-year distant metastasis-free survival rate being 71.4%. One (3%) patient died of RT-induced acute lung toxicity, while only...Continue Reading

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