What is the best practice radiotherapy approach in patients with stage II inoperable NSCLC?
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What is the best practice radiotherapy approach in patients with stage II inoperable NSCLC?
As in stage I NSCLC, surgery is the standard of care for patients with stage II NSCLC. In patients who are not fit for surgery, radiotherapy may be a curative option.
Stage II disease constitutes a small proportion of all patients with NSCLC, therefore, it is unusual to find studies restricted to this population of patients. In the CHART study, 7% of patients had stage II disease;[1] in the CHARTWEL study, it was 6%.[2] Because of the paucity of evidence for inoperable stage II disease, it seems reasonable to use the recommendation guidelines for stage III disease, to which the reader is directed, (refer radiotherapy stage III inoperable).
Evidence summary and recommendations
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 Patients with inoperable stage II disease could be offered radiotherapy with curative intent.
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References
- ↑ Saunders M, Dische S, Barrett A, Harvey A, Griffiths G, Palmar M. Continuous, hyperfractionated, accelerated radiotherapy (CHART) versus conventional radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: mature data from the randomised multicentre trial. CHART Steering committee Radiother Oncol 1999 Aug;52(2):137-48 [Abstract available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10577699].
- ↑ Baumann M, Herrmann T, Koch R, Matthiessen W, Appold S, Wahlers B, et al. Final results of the randomized phase III CHARTWEL-trial (ARO 97-1) comparing hyperfractionated-accelerated versus conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Radiother Oncol 2011 Jul;100(1):76-85 [Abstract available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21757247].
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