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RT May Have Role in Mesothelioma

By Tom Lamb

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Quoted from http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ELCC/32298

RT May Have Role in Mesothelioma

ByCharles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: April 22, 2012

 

GENEVA — Patients with advanced, poor-risk mesothelioma lived for as long as 7 years after treatment with high-dose, hemithoracic radiation therapy, data from a small patient series showed.

The 45 patients had a median overall survival of 12.4 months from treatment and an estimated 1-year survival of 50%. No patient had in field-only recurrent disease following treatment with conformal or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

The findings dispute the notion that mesothelioma is radiation insensitive, Malcolm Feigen, MD, said here at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC).

“I stood before [the ELCC] 2 years ago to present the first 14 patients we had analyzed and asked whether there was a role for high-dose hemithoracic radiotherapy in unpneumonectomized mesothelioma patients,” said Feigen, of the Austin Health Radiation Oncology Center in Melbourne, Australia. “I think now that the answer to that question is ‘absolutely.’”

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Full post as published by Asbestos HUB on April 23, 2012 (boomark / email).

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