Results of radiotherapy in cancer of the lung classified as inoperable at exploratory thoracotomy

Abstract

I inoperable lung cancers who had been treated in the Department of Radiotherapy of the Francis Delafield Hospital, New York, N.Y., with definitive radiotherapy, either 2million volt or radioactive cobalt ( C O S O ) irradiation, were evaluated as to treatment methods, tolerance to therapy, and results. These patients could be divided into 2 groups: the first group was classified as having inoperable cancers because of clinically demonstrable generalized disease; the second group had been found to have unresectable cancers at exploratory thoracotomy.