Lung cancer treatment

Oral Presentation
Chairs: J-P. Sculier (Brussels, Belgium), N. Schoenfeld (Berlin, Germany)

Radical radiotherapy in medically inoperable early stage non-small cell lung cancer L. Gaspar, E. Teixeira, R. Sotto-Mayor (Lisboa, Portugal)
Radiotherapy vs. radio-chemotherapy of the inoperable non small cell lung cancer - a phase-III-study I. Dittrich, R. Floegel, G. Liebetrau, W. R. Guschall (Lostau, Germany)
A three-arms phase III randomised trial comparing combinations of platinum derivatives, ifosfamide and/or gemcitabine in stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) J. P. Sculier, J. J. Lafitte, M. Paesmans, J. Lecomte, T. Berghmans, M. C. Florin, G. Koumakis, C. G. Alexopoulos, P. Recloux, P. Mommen, V. Ninane, J. Klastersky, For the European Lung Cancer Working Party (Brussels, Belgium)
Stage I-IIIa small cell lung cancer (SCLC): multimodal therapy including surgery M. Serke, E. Allica, D. Kaiser, R. Loddenkemper (Berlin, Germany)
Prophylactic cranial irradiation in small cell lung cancer: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis A. P. Meert, M. Paesmans, T. Berghmans, B. Martin, C. Mascaux, F. Vallot, J. M. Verdebout, J. J. Lafitte, J. P. Sculier (Brussels, Belgium; Lille, France)
Are the cisplatin and carboplatin real therapeutically equal in the management of small-cell lung cancer? S. Jezdic, S. Jelic, D. Radosavljevic, Z. Nikolic-Tomasevic, I. Popov (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
A study of paclitaxel in two dose combinations with carboplatin in the treatment of small cell lung cancer K. Zarogoulidis, T. Kontakiotis, P. Hatziapostolou, A. Papagiannis, J. Goutsikas, A. Xafenias, D. Papakosta, D. Patakas (Thessaloniki, Greece)
A three-arm phase III randomised trial assessing, in patients with extensive-disease (ED) small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), accelerated chemotherapy with the support of haematological growth factor or of oral antibiotics J. P. Sculier, J. Lecomte, O. Van Cutsem, J. J. Lafitte, T. Berghmans, G. Koumakis, M. C. Florin, P. Mommen, M. Paesmans, V. Ninane, J. Klastersky, For the European Lung Cancer Working Party (Brussels, Belgium)