Comparison costs from 1983-1997...

Treatment of Stage I NSCLC Surgical resection Image guided ablation SBRT 5 year OS 60-70% 5-year OS 30- ??% 2/3 patients Randomized Trial is Necessary...

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown University Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital,...

Medically Inoperable Stage I NSCLC: RF Ablation vs 3D-CRT Treatment, study, year Survival 1yr 2yr 3yr RF Ablation, RAPTUREclincal trial 2007 Overall survival 71% NA Cancer-specific survival 92% 92% NA 3D-CRT, Bradley et al, IJROBP 2003 Ove...

Recurrence after RFA Brown university Experience To review the recurrence patterns in patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with percutaneous image-guided radiofrequency (RF) ablation. The most common pattern of...

Alla Y. Zemlyak, MD Comparison of survival after sublobar resections and ablative therapies for stage I NSCLC Primary end points overall survival, cancer-specific survival, and cancer-free survival N=25 SLR N=12 RFA N=27 Cryo N= CECT, FDG...

RF Ablation of Medically Inoperable Stage I NSCLC Simon et al, Radiology 2007...

62% (33/53) of tumors 3 cm succes sfully treated in one session - Compares favorably with RFA literature (23-40% success rate in tumors over 3 cm) - Tumors over 4 cm typically excluded in RFA literature (our study had 36 tumors 4 cm) Data...

Nonenhanced and contrast-enhanced chest CT routine at 1-, 3-, and 6-months - 3- and 6-month studies occasionally replaced with FDG PET/CT 1-month follow up at Tumor Ablation Clinic - Discuss imaging results/assess and treat delayed complic...

None Mild Moderate Severe Life- Th r eaten i ng Death Pneumothorax 73 (68%) 14 (13%) 16 (15%) 4 (4%) 0 1(1%) Hospital Admission 78 (72%) 14 (13%) 9 (8%) 6 (6%) 1(1%) 2 (2%) BPF 105 (97%) 0 0 1(1%) 1(1%) 1(1%) Pain 85 (78%) 19 (18%) 3 (3%)...