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- Title
Lungenkrebs aus Sicht der Inneren Medizin und Chirurgie.
- Authors
Prasse, A.; Waller, C.; Passlick, B.; Müller-Quernheim, J.
- Abstract
In previous years numerous advances in diagnostics, staging and therapy of lung cancer have been achieved. Nevertheless, it remains the most frequent cause of death from cancerous diseases. Early diagnosis and exact staging enable multimodal therapy regimens adjusted to age and comorbidities, which result in complete remission in a few and in prolonged survival and good quality of life in most patients. Curative surgery is possible in stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and results in a 5-year survival rates of up to approximately 75%. Using multimodal therapy approaches long-term survival can even be achieved in 40–50% of patients with advanced T4 tumors. However, in NSCLC with distant metastases median survival time is only 8-12 months. In elderly patients with no surgical options low cytotoxic monotherapy can be employed with a palliative intent. In the limited disease stage of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) long lasting remission after polychemotherapy has been observed in a minority of patients. However, in the extensive disease stage polychemotherapy prolongs the survival time of SCLC patients from 1–2 months to approximately 12 months.
- Subjects
LUNG cancer diagnosis; INTERNAL medicine; LUNG cancer; LUNG surgery; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMBINED modality therapy; COMORBIDITY; CANCER chemotherapy
- Publication
Der Radiologe, 2010, Vol 50, Issue 8, p662
- ISSN
0033-832X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00117-009-1961-5