Would you recommend a cycle of chemotherapy prior to concurrent chemoradiation for a Stage III NSCLC patient who needs to start treatment sooner than allowed by the IMRT planning process?  

For a patient who has symptomatic airway disease requiring urgent intervention, they should be stabilized with airway stenting and high-dose steroids to allow time to generate a good IMRT plan. Induction chemotherapy has no guarantee of improving symptoms and has been shown in the CALGB study (Vokes...