METHOD OF TREATING NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61N5/10 A61N5/00 A61K31/282 A61P35/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, more specifically to oncology and radiology. The method involves the local radiation therapy sessions in a dynamic dose fractionation mode. Additionally, 3 times a week the local radiation therapy session is immediately followed by subtotal irradiation of the upper body from a suprasternal notch to a diaphragm. Thereafter, 21-28 days after the local radiation therapy completed, min. 4 cycles of the chemotherapy with each cycle combined with subtotal irradiation of the upper body from the suprasternal notch to the diaphragm 3 times a week.

EFFECT: method enables reducing a risk of developing a local recurrence of the tumour and metastases to 10,7% as compared to the previously known methods (15%), as well as a severity of complications with achieving the complete objective response to the treatment in 35,7% of the patients, and the partial response - in 46,42%.

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