폐암의 방사선치료 결과에 대한 간이보고

Preliminary Report of the Lung Cancer

The preliminary analysis has been made of 63 Patients who were treated in the Department of Radiation Therapy at Korea University Hospital for the lung cancer from April 1981 to December 1983. The patients were treated via Co-60 teletherapy unit and the doses were 5,400 rad/ 6 week for the curative, $3,600\~4,500\;rad/2\;1/2\;\~3$ week for the Palliative treatment. Thirty two $(32/63=51\%)$ patients have been for curative, $25/63 (40\%)$ were for Palliative, and $6/63 (9\%)$ were for post-operative radiation. A post-radiation treatment, $28/63 (53\%)$ were able to follow from 2 months to 3 yrs. During the follow up, chest X-rays and/or CT scans were taken and $22/27 (81.4\%)$ of patients were responded more than $50\%$ of tumor regression one month following completion of radiation.