Palliation

Pulmonology

Questions discussed in this category

Can palliative radiation be used to treat recurrent malignant pleural effusion in NSCLC?

1 Answer available

How would you manage palliation in a patient with postobstructive pneumonia caused by a mediastinal mass?

Would you treat if there is active infection? How much improvement would you expect?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1994-03

Toxicity of thoracic radiotherapy on pulmonary function in lung cancer.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2012-09-01

Prognostic impact of radiation therapy to the primary tumor in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and oligometastasis at diagnosis.

Practical radiation oncology, 2015

Comparative effectiveness of aggressive thoracic radiation therapy and concurrent chemoradiation therapy in metastatic lung cancer.

Practical radiation oncology, 2011

Palliative thoracic radiotherapy in lung cancer: An American Society for Radiation Oncology evidence-based clinical practice guideline.

Pract Radiat Oncol, 2023 Sep-Oct

Treatment of Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: An ASTRO/ESTRO Clinical Practice Guideline.

The oncologist, 2019 Apr 30

Concurrent EGFR-TKI and Thoracic Radiotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Harboring EGFR Active Mutations.

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2019 Feb 07

Radical consolidative treatment provides a clinical benefit and long-term survival in patients with synchronous oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer: A phase II study.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2015 Aug 07

Three-Dimensional Radiation Therapy to the Primary Tumor With Concurrent Chemotherapy in Patients With Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results of a Multicenter Phase 2 Study From PPRA-RTOG, China.

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