Completing Chemo Vital for Patients with Small-Cell Lung Cancer
August 31st, 2006
In patients with limited-stage, small-cell lung cancer being treated with chemotherapy, survival is not affected if thoracic radiotherapy is administered early or later in the course of chemotherapy (cycle 2 versus cycle 6), results of a British study suggest. Far more relevant, the investigators observed, is that patients do markedly better when they receive the entire dose of chemotherapy.