Surgery is the treatment of
choice for non-small cell lung cancer, and has the best results. Some patients with early
stage lung cancer are treated with radiation alone because they either refuse surgery or
are medically inoperable,
The expected survival results using
conventional radiation of these patients is poor but probably better
than nothing are noted below
(also see literature review from
Cheung, and
more recent review
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