TITLE:
The Outcome of the Chemotherapy and Oncothermia for Far Advanced Adenocarcinoma of the Lung: Case Reports of Four Patients
AUTHORS:
Doo Yun Lee, Joon Seok Park, Hae Chul Jung, Eun Seol Byun, Seok Jin Haam, Sung Soo Lee
KEYWORDS:
Lung Cancer, Chemotherapy
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Lung Cancer,
Vol.4 No.1,
March
13,
2015
ABSTRACT:
Lung cancer is one of the most
aggressive and lethal form of cancers. Patients with far advanced lung cancer
are treated by chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. However, median
survival of these patients is less than 6 months. To increase survival and
quality of life for these patients, various forms of complementary treatments
have been tried in clinical practices, and oncothermia is supposed to be one of
the promising candidates. From May 2008 to November 2013, 4 patients with far
advanced lung adenocarcinoma (stages IIIB and IV) were treated with oncothermia
in addition to conventional chemotherapy at Gangnam Severance Hospital and
Bundang CHA Hospital. All these patients have survived for more than 2 years.