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BRIEF REPORT Surgical Treatment of Local Recurrence After Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Primary and Metastatic Lung Cancers Shinya Neri, MD,* Yutaka Takahashi, MD, PhD,* Takuya Terashi, MD,* Hiroshi Hamakawa, MD,* Keisuke Tomii, MD, PhD,† Nobuyuki Katakami, MD, PhD,‡ and Masaki Kokubo, MD, PhD§ 1– 4 mors. Especially in stage I NSCLC, the local control Introduction: Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has been 1–3 rate is documented to exceed 85%. Thus, SBRT could proposed as an alternative to surgery for the treatment of lung serve as a treatment alternative in patients who are fit to cancer. The treatment of local recurrence that occurs after SBRT has undergo anatomic resection. not been reported. We present surgical outcomes for local recurrence Several patterns of disease recurrence after SBRT have following SBRT for primary and metastatic lung cancers. 1,5 been reported. These include local recurrence, regional lymph Methods: Seven of the patients who received SBRT between 2002 and metastasis, and distant metastasis. Resection or repeat SBRT as 2008 underwent salvage surgery for local recurrence. These seven salvage therapy for such local recurrences has been reported, patients (two with stage I non-small cell lung cancer and five with but few published reports have described the
Journal of Thoracic Oncology – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Dec 1, 2010
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