Longest Reported Survival Rate For Locally Advanced Lung

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Cancer Patients, Study Demonstrates

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medical ... wsid=24521

16 May 2005

An investigational chemoradiation regimen has achieved the best long-term survival rates yet reported in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to results of a Phase II Southwest Oncology Group study presented today at the 41st annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

The study, SWOG-9504, evaluated the use of the chemotherapy agent docetaxel (Taxotere) administered after two other chemotherapy drugs - cisplatin and etoposide - plus radiation therapy. Among patients treated with the regimen, 29 percent were still alive after five years versus 17 percent of patients from a previous study, SWOG-9019. Patients in the earlier study received the same chemoradiation without docetaxel. Median survival also increased from 15 months in SWOG-9019 to 26 months in SWOG-9504.

“The long-term survival data are particularly promising because they exceed the results of all other treatment approaches in this group of patients with locally advanced, Stage IIIB disease,â€

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Thank you, Rich. I guess I'm the "question lady" today, but what does "locally advanced" mean? One lung, two lungs, just in the immediate area?

Thanks again,

Peggy

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Hi Peggy,

From the NCI (National Cancer Institute) / locally advanced cancer - Cancer that has spread only to nearby tissues or lymph nodes

http://cancer.gov/dictionary/?searchTxt ... &_ctl0.y=3 (locally advanced cancer)

http://cancer.gov/dictionary (NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms)

Rich