Combined treatment of patients with lung carcinoma. (Preliminary results assembled in international cooperative investigation)
Virsík, K.; Gavalcová, E.; Badalík, L.; Szalmová, S.; Kandrácová, Z.
Czechoslovak Medicine 3(2): 144-150
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0139-9179 PMID: 7418570 Document Number: 156577
The authors submit information on the preliminary results of combined treatment of patients with carcinoma of the lungs (epidermoid, adenocarcinoma, large-cell and combined carcinoma). The patients were classified, consistents with the protocol of the study, into two basic groups, each of which was sub-divided at random into two sub-groups. In the first group of 25 patients 9 were subjected to preoperative radiotherapy--2 000 rad (Co60) and 16 patients were operated without previous radiotherapy. The second group was formed by 41 patients incl. 21 who were treated by radical Co60 therapy and 20 patients who in addition to Co60 therapy were given the cytostatic preparation Methotrexate and 5-Florouracil. The submitted work is part of an international cooperative study within the framework of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance which was started in 1976 and the enlistment of patients will be completed in 1980.