Role of Radiation Treatment for Small Cell Lung Cancer

Radiation treatment offers potentially curative treatment as part of combined modality approaches with chemotherapy for patients with limited stage disease. It also offers palliation of symptoms in extensive stage disease.

Indications

Mediastinal radiation is indicated for patients with limited stage small cell lung cancer, and for selected patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer. Prophylactic whole brain radiation therapy is often used to prevent brain metastases.

Benefits

Radiation can result in control of tumour growth in the chest, offers relief of symptoms and, in some cases, contributes to the cure of the disease.

Special Programs

• Phase III Trial of RT in limited stage SCLC

How to Make a Referral

Patients may be referred to one of the radiation oncologists in the Site Group either through the departmental referral process or by contacting one of the physicians directly.

This page was last updated June 21st, 2010 at 2:25pm.