Clinical features of patients with small cell lung cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treated with chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy.
Nobuhiro KanajiJunichi ShimizuKenichiro SakaiYutaka UedaHiroshi MiyawakiNaohiro WatanabeTakehiro UemuraToyoaki HidaTakuya InoueNaoki WatanabeYasuhiro OoharaHiroaki DobashiMikiya KatoNorimitsu KadowakiPublished in: Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease (2021)
In patients with SCLC, the presence of IPF was associated with a lower response rate as well as shorter PFS and shorter OS. There are some cases that are suitable for chemoradiotherapy, even among patients with IPF.The reviews of this paper are available via the supplemental material section.