Re-irradiation plus regional hyperthermia for recurrent non-small cell lung cancer: a potential modality for inducing long-term survival in selected patients.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the toxicity and efficacy of re-irradiation plus regional hyperthermia for recurrent NSCLC and to identify the predictors of long-term survival.

Methods And Materials: A total of 33 patients with recurrent NSCLC treated with re-irradiation plus regional hyperthermia were retrospectively analyzed. The median total dose of initial radiotherapy and re-irradiation were 70 Gy and 50 Gy, respectively.

Postoperative radiotherapy for incompletely resected non-small cell lung cancer: clinical outcomes and prognostic value of the histological subtype.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of the postoperative radiotherapy in patients with incompletely resected NSCLC, and to investigate whether the histological subtype is a prognostic factor. Forty-one incompletely resected NSCLC patients who underwent postoperative radiotherapy were retrospectively analyzed. The microscopic residual tumor (R1 group) was recognized in 23 patients, and the macroscopic residual tumor (R2 group) in 18.

Multimodal approaches including three-dimensional conformal re-irradiation for recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer: preliminary results.

The purpose of this study was to assess the toxicity and efficacy of multimodal approaches, including three-dimensional conformal re-irradiation, for patients with recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer after radiotherapy. Thirty-one patients with esophageal cancer treated with three-dimensional conformal re-irradiation were retrospectively analyzed. Of the 31 patients, 27 patients received concurrent chemotherapy, and 14 patients underwent regional hyperthermia during the re-irradiation.

Deep regional hyperthermia for the whole thoracic region using 8 MHz radiofrequency-capacitive heating device: relationship between the radiofrequency-output power and the intra-oesophageal temperature and predictive factors for a good heating in 59 patients.

Purpose: To assess the relationship between the radiofrequency (RF) output power and the intra-oesophageal temperature for hyperthermia of the whole thoracic region, and also to evaluate the patients' characteristics associated with adequate heating.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-nine patients with thoracic cancer treated with radiotherapy plus hyperthermia were retrospectively analysed. The 8-MHz RF capacitive heating device was applied, both the upper and lower electrodes were 300 mm in diameter, placed on opposite sides of the whole thoracic region.

Definitive radiotherapy plus regional hyperthermia with or without chemotherapy for superior sulcus tumors: a 20-year, single center experience.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and toxicity of definitive radiotherapy (RT) plus regional hyperthermia (HT) in treating superior sulcus tumors (SSTs), and to identify predictors of positive outcomes.

Methods And Materials: Twenty-four patients with SSTs treated with definitive RT plus regional HT were retrospectively analyzed. The median total dose of RT was 70 Gy.