Acta Med. 2009, 52: 23-25

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2016.103

Thoracic Radiotherapy for Mediastinal Nodal Recurrence

Katsunori Kagohashia, Hidetsugu Nakayamab, Kenji Kageib, Koichi Kurishimaa, Hiroichi Ishikawaa, Hiroaki Satoha

aUniversity of Tsukuba, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Tsubaka-city, Ibaraki, 305–8575, Japan
bUniversity of Tsukuba, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Tsubaka-city, Ibaraki, 305–8575, Japan

Received March 1, 2008
Accepted January 1, 2009

Radiotherapy has been used to treat loco-regional recurrences located at various intra-thoracic sites, but longterm survival of these patients has been rarely observed. We report herein a lung adenocarcinoma patient with locoregional recurrence, who was successfully treated with high-dose radiotherapy. The patient could survive with no evidence of recurrence 5 years after thoracic irradiation. It is probably safe to administrate high-dose radiotherapy for some loco-regional recurrent patients with favorable prognostic factors such as good PS, no body weight loss. Further studies will be required to define a favorable subset of patients most likely to benefit from an aggressive approach.

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