Aggressive Trimodality Therapy for T1N2M1 Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer with Synchronous Solitary Brain Metastasis: Case Report and Rationale.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Abstract
Aggressive treatment, including resection of both metastasis and primary tumor, has been studied for non-small cell lung cancer patients with synchronous solitary brain metastasis. Involvement of mediastinal lymph nodes is considered a poor prognostic factor and a contraindication to surgical resection of the primary lung tumor after treatment for brain metastasis. Here we present the case of a patient who presented with a Stage IV T1N2M1 non-small cell lung cancer with synchronous solitary brain metastasis. He is alive and without evidence of disease two years after aggressive, multimodality treatment that included craniotomy, whole-brain radiation therapy, thoracic surgery, chemotherapy, and mediastinal radiation therapy.
Recommended Citation
Showalter, Timothy and Lin, Alexander, "Aggressive Trimodality Therapy for T1N2M1 Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer with Synchronous Solitary Brain Metastasis: Case Report and Rationale." (2009). Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers. Paper 42.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/radoncfp/42
PubMed ID
20169130
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It was published in: Case Reports in Medicine.
2009: 276571.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1155/2009/276571. Copyright © Hindawi