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Maria Werner-Wasik, MD, on Lung Cancer Highlights: Expert Perspective

2017 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Maria Werner-Wasik, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, summarizes a session on NSCLC that included discussion of a quality-of-life trial on optimizing treatment; chemotherapy and radiotherapy in advanced disease; a comparison of standard- vs high-dose conformal chemoradiotherapy; and long-term results on a comparison of two stereotactic body radiation therapy schedules in inoperable stage I disease (Abstracts 223, 224, 227, 33).



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