Abstract
Oncologists are by nature optimists, but it is necessary to take a longer view and to put the clinical problem of lung cancer into perspective. At present, 39% of all UK cancer deaths in males and 13% of deaths from malignant disease in females are due to lung cancer. The age distribution of patients newly diagnosed as having lung cancer in the South Thames Regions is shown in Table 1. What is immediately obvious is that the majority of patients are past retirement from active economic life and many are in their seventh and eighth decades.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Berry RJ (1980) Objectives in radiation oncology. In: Bellingham AJ (ed) Advanced medicine, 16. Pitman Medical, London, pp 162–170
Berry RJ, Laing AH, Newman CR, Peto J (1977) The role of radiotherapy in treatment of inoperable lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2: 433–439
Einhorn LH, Williams SD, Stevens EE, Bond WH, Chenoweth L (1982) Random prospective study of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and methotrexate ( CAM) combination chemotherapy versus single-agent sequential chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Treat Rep 66: 2005–2011
Laing AH, Berry RJ, Newman CR, Smith P (1975a) Treatment of small-cell carcinoma of bronchus. Lancet 1: 129–132
Laing AH, Berry RJ, Newman CR, Peto J (1975b) Treatment of inoperable carcinoma of bronchus. Lancet 2: 1161–1164
Roswit B (1976) Survival with inoperable lung cancer. NY State J Med 76: 560–563
Shiner R, Turner J, Mikhail J, McNicol MW (1977) 10 year follow-up of 337 consecutive cases of bronchial carcinoma seen in a chest clinic. Thorax 32: 238–244
South Thames Cancer Registry (1978–1980) Report of the Executive Committee. STCR, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey, p 63
Yin W-B, Wang M, Hwang Y-J, Zhang L-J, Li G-H, Yu Z-H, Miao Y-J, Zhang C-H, Ku X-Z (1983) The results of radiation therapy in advanced carcinoma of the lung in the Beijing region of China. Clin Radiol 34: 117–120
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1984 Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Berry, R.J. (1984). Palliative Management. In: Duncan, W. (eds) Lung Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82218-6_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82218-6_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-82220-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-82218-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive