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: Asbestos HUBRT May Have Role in Mesothelioma
By Tom Lamb
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.’”
Full post as published by Asbestos HUB on April 23, 2012 (boomark / email).
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