Radiation Therapy for Early Stage Lung Cancer Detected on CT Screening: Results from the I-ELCAP

Abstract

The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) is an international collaborative group that investigates CT screening as a means of early detection of lung cancer. I-ELCAP has shown that CT screening frequently leads to the diagnosis of Stage I lung cancer. While the majority of patients were treated surgically, we performed a subgroup analysis of the patients who were treated with radiation or chemoradiation as their primary treatment modality after the diagnosis of lung cancer.