Cancer
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Adjuvant radiotherapy versus combined sequential chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy in the treatment of resected nonsmall cell lung carcinoma. A randomized trial of 267 patients. GETCB (Groupe d'Etude et de Traitement des Cancers Bronchiques).
The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy after resection of nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains an unresolved question. ⋯ The COPAC chemotherapy as postoperative treatment failed to improve overall survival in patients with resected NSCLC receiving postoperative radiotherapy but decreased the pattern of metastatic progression, mainly in the N2 patients.
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Case Reports
Successful treatment of invasive thoracopulmonary mucormycosis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Pulmonary mucormycosis associated with hematologic malignancy is an uncommon, but important opportunistic fungal pneumonia that is usually a fatal infection. Only a few survivors of pulmonary mucormycosis have been reported. ⋯ In the management of mucormycosis, the addition of G-CSF to the conventional treatment may substantially improve outcome.