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Chest, Vol 75, 325-329, Copyright © 1979 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Long survival in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma complicated by superior vena caval obstruction

C Nogeire, F Mincer and C Botstein

When superior vena caval obstruction complicates cancer of the lung; the prognosis is grave; 1 percent of such patients survive for one year. Improved palliation is reported from many radiation therapy centers using higher initial dose fractions and tumoricidal doses. We now report the findings in three patients with histologically confirmed bronchogenic carcinoma who had superior vena caval obstruction and who survived for nine years (two patients) and seven years (one patient). Aggressive therapy with irradiation seems to provide better palliation and may occasionally be associated with remarkably long survivals in this normally highly lethal disease.




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