Background: When skin abnormalities in patients extend over several dermatomes, disseminated herpes zoster should be suspected. This complication is most often seen in immunocompromised patients.
Case Description: An 87-year-old patient came to the dermatology outpatient clinic with several vesicles scattered over her body.
Background: Sequential chemotherapy and individualised accelerated radiotherapy (INDAR) has been shown to be effective in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), allowing delivering of high biological doses. We therefore performed a phase II trial (clinicaltrials.gov; NCT00572325) investigating the same strategy in concurrent chemo-radiation in stage III NSCLC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We previously showed that individualized radiation dose escalation based on normal tissue constraints would allow safe administration of high radiation doses with low complication rate. Here, we report the mature results of a prospective, single-arm study that used this individualized tolerable dose approach.
Patients And Methods: In total, 166 patients with stage III or medically inoperable stage I to II non-small-cell lung cancer, WHO performance status 0 to 2, a forced expiratory volume at 1 second and diffusing capacity of lungs for carbon monoxide >or= 30% were included.