PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P.M. Putora
AU  - M. Früh
AU  - L. Kern
TI  - The place of radiotherapy in the palliative management of NSCLC
AID  - 10.1183/20734735.012711
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - Breathe
PG  - 134--143
VI  - 8
IP  - 2
4099  - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/8/2/134.short
4100  - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/8/2/134.full
SO  - breathe2011 Dec 01; 8
AB  - Educational aims To explain the basic rationale of radiation oncology. To set out the typical indications for palliative radiotherapy and its limitations. Summary Palliative treatment may be needed for many patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at diagnosis or during the course of their disease. For many palliative problems, including bleeding, pain, superior vena cava syndrome and obstruction, there are various treatment options, with radiotherapy being one of them. Consequently, multidisciplinary evaluation before a treatment decision is made is very important.