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Vol.46 No.4 contents | Japanese/English |
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- Review Article -
A New Paradigm for Medical Practice for Lung Cancer -A Combination of Lung Cancer Screening by LSCT (Lung Cancer Screening CT) and Radiosurgery by Single-dose Carbon Irradiation-
Takeshi Iinuma1, Tadaaki Miyamoto11National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
Reducing mortality due to lung cancer deaths is the most important issue in the fight against cancer. As a practical solution the authors propose a completely new paradigm for cancer diagnosis. This approach calls for the popularization of lung cancer screening CT to cover over 50% of the entire Japanese population aged between 40 and 84 by 2025 and the treatment of the early-stage lung cancer thus detected by the single-dose carbon ion radiotherapy modality developed by the authors. By this means it would be possible to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate by over 22%. The strategic installation of carbon ion radiotherapy facilities exclusively dedicated to the treatment of lung cancer throughout Japan would permit lung cancer treatment on a large scale at a lower cost than with current surgery.
key words: Medical practice for lung cancer, Lung cancer screening CT, Single-dose carbon ion radiotherapy, New paradigm
JJLC 46 (4): 309-314, 2006
