Clinical outcomes of pancoast tumors treated with trimodality therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Superior sulcus tumors, or Pancoast tumors, are challenging thoracic malignancies to treat due to their anatomical location posing difficult surgical access and potential involvement of adjacent vital structures. The current standard of care is trimodality treatment, which consists of induction chemoradiotherapy followed by radical surgical resection. This study aims to report the clinical outcomes of trimodality approach in British Columbia, Canada.

Methods

Patients with Pancoast tumors who underwent trimodality treatment between 2000-2015 were included in this provincial multi-center retrospective study. Patient-, disease-, and treatment-related data were collected, and treatment outcomes were recorded.

Results

We identified 32 patients who underwent indu

SUBMITTER: Lin TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264722 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature