METHOD OF TREATING LOCALLY ADVANCED NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61N5/10 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, oncology, pulmonology, radiology, radiation therapy of non-small-cell lung cancer. Sessions of the local radiation therapy are daily to a total focal dose equivalent to 60-70 Gy, in a dynamic dose fractionation mode at a single focal dose of 4-2 Gy. Additionally, three times a week immediately after the local radiotherapy session, an upper part of substernal notch to diaphragmare exposed to subtotal irradiation at a single dose of 0.1 Gy to a total dose of 1 Gy.

EFFECT: method provides reducing a risk of local recurrence, distant metastasis, and a severity of acute radiation reactions and injuries, eg pneumonitis, esophagitis, reducing the hematopoietic complications, complete tumour regression in 15,6% of patients with an average life expectancy of 18 months.

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