Provides research abstracts that were presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in San Francisco, California on November 4-7, 2001. Improvements made in the local control of advanced non-small cell lung cancer; Promise shown by fludarabine phosphate for treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Possibility that chemotherapy plus radiation after surgery could increase survival of patients with head and neck cancer.