Abstract
More recently, mounted efforts and therapeutic progress in the detection of lung cancer have been rewarded with a higher detection rate of lung cancer of synchronous origin, asynchronous origin and multifocal origins. The last type, however, frequently poses a therapeutic problem, and in many cases complete resection of the foci is completely impossible. With this in mind, we attempted to extend the range of therapeutic indications by performing PDT on the focus of lung cancer while it still seemed to be at an early stage.
We experienced ten cases of multifocal lung cancer, in which five cases were of the synchronous type and the remaining five cases were of the asynchronous type. In seven cases operation and combined treatment were performed, while in the other three cases PDT alone was used for treatment. Prognostically five patients died, while the other five have survived for a period ranging from 11 months to 65 months.
