Partial resections of the lung in advanced stages of cancer are performed much less frequently. According to the materials of the clinic, they accounted for only 10.2% of all combined and 21.3% of extended surgical interventions. The development of insolvency of […]

Open drainage of the pleural cavity — thoracostomy we regard as an extreme forced measure, the use of which is justified only in rare cases of the ineffectiveness of other methods of surgical and conservative treatment of patients. In surgery […]

Radical and palliative treatment of malignant tumors is carried out with the help of various antitumor effects, which with a certain degree of conditionality can be divided into 3 main groups 1) antitumor effects of a local-regional type — surgical treatment, […]

Combined and complex surgical treatment of patients with lung cancer in advanced stages of the disease is traditionally based on the use of radiation and chemotherapy. The many years that have passed since the beginning of the formation of radiation […]

Radiation therapy for lung cancer is carried out as an independent method of treatment, in combination with surgery or with anticancer drugs, as well as as part of a complex effect on the tumor, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, undertaken […]

The goal of postoperative radiation therapy is to achieve the death of tumor cell complexes that could remain in the surgical area. It is known that the most actively proliferating cells are located on the periphery of the tumor, which […]

Radiotherapy in patients with lung cancer involves the use of various methods of dose administration. The standard method of radiation therapy consists in conducting radiation from two direct opposite curly fields — the anterior and posterior, or — with the […]