Palliative sequential chemoradiotherapy for pulmonary sulcus tumor: A case report.

Pulmonary sulcus tumors are occasionally encountered in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. If the patients have a good clinical condition, concurrent chemoradiotherapy is indicated. However, palliative chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for patients exhibiting a poor overall condition have not been reported to date.

Lower limb lymphedema in lung adenocarcinoma: Two case reports.

Breast and gynecological cancers and their treatment may cause lymphedema of the upper and lower extremities, respectively. We herein report the cases of two patients with lung adenocarcinoma who developed lymphedema of the lower extremities. One patient harbored an epidermal growth factor receptor mutation and the other patient harbored an anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusion gene.

[S-1 activity in non-small cell lung cancer in clinical practice].

Objective: We evaluated retrospectively single-agent S-1 chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer patients in clinical practice.

Methods: Sixteen consecutive patients treated with single-agent S-1 for NSCLC between July 2005 and June 2007 at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital. The treatment schedule comprised oral administration of S-1 at 80-120 mg/day.