Survival of Patients in Clinical Stages I–IIIb of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy Alone

Up to now, evidence about survival of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer treated with radiation therapy alone is only available from clinical studies. The authors analyzed survival experience depending on several prognostic factors from a population-based cancer registry and compared this to survival data from the literature. Between April 1996 and September 1999, 1,696 patients with lung cancer were recruited by the Halle Lung Cancer...