Ohri Nitin
Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY, United States.
Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, The Bronx, NY, United States.
Front Oncol. 2017 Sep 21;7:205. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2017.00205. eCollection 2017.
Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) is typically treated with thoracic radiotherapy, often in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy. Despite tremendous advances in the evaluation, treatment techniques, and supportive care measures provided to LA-NSCLC patients, local disease progression and distant metastases frequently develop following definitive therapy. A recent landmark randomized trial demonstrated that radiotherapy dose escalation may reduce survival rates, highlighting our poor understanding of the effects of thoracic radiotherapy for LA-NSCLC. Here, we present rationale for further studies of radiotherapy dose escalation as well as arguments for exploring relatively low radiotherapy doses for LA-NSCLC.
局部晚期非小细胞肺癌(LA-NSCLC)通常采用胸部放疗进行治疗,常联合细胞毒性化疗。尽管在LA-NSCLC患者的评估、治疗技术和支持性护理措施方面取得了巨大进展,但在确定性治疗后,局部疾病进展和远处转移仍经常发生。最近一项具有里程碑意义的随机试验表明,放疗剂量增加可能会降低生存率,这凸显了我们对LA-NSCLC胸部放疗效果的了解不足。在此,我们阐述了进一步研究放疗剂量增加的理论依据,以及探讨LA-NSCLC相对低放疗剂量的理由。