Extensive stage

Effect of radiotherapy on the treatment of patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer

C. Wu, Wang, T., Wang, J., Qu, B., Wang, H., and Hu, Y., Effect of radiotherapy on the treatment of patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer, vol. 13, pp. 8577-8585, 2014.

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive disease, in which more than 80% of patients present distant metastases at the time of first diagnosis. Chemotherapy is considered as the main treatment of extensive disease of SCLC (ED-SCLC), while the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of ED-SCLC is controversial. A case-control study was undertaken of patients diagnosed as ED-SCLC between 2004 and 2010.

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