TY - JOUR
T1 - Five-year disease-free survival of a lung cancer patient treated only by photodynamic therapy
AU - Kato, H.
AU - Konaka, C.
AU - Kawate, N.
AU - Shinohara, H.
AU - Kinoshita, K.
AU - Noguchi, M.
AU - Ootomo, S.
AU - Hayata, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: The authors wish to express their deep gratitude to Professor J. P. Barron of Tokyo Medical College for his review of the manuscript. This study was supported in part by a Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education and Science of Japan, a Cancer Grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and from the Japan Tabacco Company Ltd.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - A 59-year-old woman had suffered cough and sputum production for several months. Chest x-ray film findings were negative, but sputum cytology yielded a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma. This stage Ia lung cancer in the right upper lobe bronchus was deemed inoperable due to poor cardiopulmonary function. She was treated by photodynamic therapy in February 1981, involving intravenous injection of hematoporphyrin derivative and fiberoptic endoscopically delivered argon dye laser light. She responded well to the treatment and the lesion disappeared within a week. At present, she is apparently disease-free more than five years after treatment. This is the first known report of five-year disease-free survival following treatment of a malignant lesion by PDT only.
AB - A 59-year-old woman had suffered cough and sputum production for several months. Chest x-ray film findings were negative, but sputum cytology yielded a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma. This stage Ia lung cancer in the right upper lobe bronchus was deemed inoperable due to poor cardiopulmonary function. She was treated by photodynamic therapy in February 1981, involving intravenous injection of hematoporphyrin derivative and fiberoptic endoscopically delivered argon dye laser light. She responded well to the treatment and the lesion disappeared within a week. At present, she is apparently disease-free more than five years after treatment. This is the first known report of five-year disease-free survival following treatment of a malignant lesion by PDT only.
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U2 - 10.1378/chest.90.5.768
DO - 10.1378/chest.90.5.768
M3 - Article
C2 - 3769583
AN - SCOPUS:0023007063
SN - 0012-3692
VL - 90
SP - 768
EP - 770
JO - Chest
JF - Chest
IS - 5
ER -
