[Tactics in treating patients with small cell cancer of the lung with superior vena cava obstruction syndrome].

A non-randomized study was carried out to evaluate the immediate and end results of chemo-radiation therapy of 44 cases of small-cell lung cancer aggravated with superior vena cava obstruction syndrome. Both radiation and chemotherapy proved effective in urgent combatting said syndrome. The best results were reliably secured when chemotherapy was supported with radiotherapy at an earlier possible stage. Due to gravity of their condition such case require the therapy as an urgent measure. The treatment proved effective as 40% of patients with localized small-cell lung tumors and the syndrome survived 12 months.