Journal of thoracic disease 16(2) 989-996 Feb 2024
BACKGROUND: Home oxygen therapy (HOT) is used to treat chronic respiratory diseases and is sometimes required in patients with lung cancer after radical surgery. We aimed to identify the risk factors for postoperative home-based oxygen therapy in ...
BACKGROUND: In advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, those with impaired performance status (PS) treated with EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have demonstrated comp...
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease that often causes progressive pulmonary fibrosis (HPS-PPF) in some genetic types with high mortality rates. No effective treatment for HPS-PPF other than lung transplantation ha...
Radiation oncology (London, England) 18(1) 201-201 Dec 2023
PURPOSE: This study aimed to compare the outcomes of patients with ground-grass opacity (GGO)-dominant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were treated with carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) versus segmentectomy. METHODS: A retrospective review of...
Due to the scarcity of large-sized prospective databases, the Japanese Joint Committee for Lung Cancer Registry conducted a nationwide prospective registry for newly diagnosed and untreated pleural mesothelioma. All new cases diagnosed pathologica...