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The natural history of lung cancer precludes curative therapy in a majority of cases. For example, fifty to sixty percent of patients who present with upper lobe lesions have bilateral mediastinal lymph node metastasis as do 30% of patients with lower lobe lesions [1,2]. Hematogenous spread with multiple organ involvement has been reported in 30% of all patients at the time of diagnosis with oat cell carcinoma having the highest incidence of distant metastasis [3–5].
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Sherman, D.M., Weichselbaum, R.R. (1981). The Use of Pre-operative Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Lung Carcinoma. In: Livingston, R.B. (eds) Lung Cancer 1. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8207-9_4
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