Extended salvage lung surgery for tumor recurrence following definitive chemoradiation therapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Initially results

Background: The salvage surgical resection for non-small cell lung cancer recurrence is a new challenge in the thoracic surgery field. The impact of the postradiotherapy surgical salvage remains poorly defined. We report a case series with extended salvage surgical procedure for therapy failure or the tumor recurrence following primary definitive chemoradiation in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Patients and methods: Nine patients with local tumour recurrence and treatment failure following definitive chemoradiation were identified retrospectively. The electronic data based analysis in…