Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Radiotherapy techniques, Cancer, Complications, Ablation procedures, CT, Thorax, Oncology, Lung
Authors:
R. M. Heaney, S. P. Doran, M. Keys, P. Thirion, P. Beddy; Dublin/IE
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-3383
Background
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Ireland and non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 75 - 85% of lung cancer diagnoses (1,
2).
Approximately one quarter of patients present with early stage NSCLC for which surgical resection is the treatment of choice.
Not all of these patients will be deemed fit to undergo resection however.
SABR is indicated in early stage NSCLC in patients who are unfit for or decline surgery.
The increasing use of CT has resulted in an increase in the detection of incidental pulmonary nodules and lung cancers.
This,
in combination with the aging population,
many of whom have multiple comorbidities,
has resulted in an increase in the utilisation of SABR in the treatment of early stage NSCLC.