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Roy Decker, MD, PhD, on Chemoradiation in Elderly Patients With Limited-Stage SCLC

2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Roy Decker, MD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine, discusses a National Cancer Database analysis that showed elderly patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer can benefit from adding concurrent radiation to chemotherapy (Abstract 1010).



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