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A Case of Iodine 125 Seeds (I-125) Responding to Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Qingtao NiChi PanQing GuoPeng WangYan YangWei ZhangShengbin Dai
Published in: Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society (2022)
Lung squamous cell cancer (SCC) and accounts for approximately 20%-30% of all lung cancers. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are the main treatments for lung SCC patients. A case with lung SCC patient who was treated using iodine 125 seeds (I-125) because the location of the tumor was adjacent to the great vessels. I-125 is an ideal brachytherapy for lung SCC patients with large masses who lost the chance of operation. I-125 is an adjuvant therapy, combined with chemotherapy and molecular targeting therapy might serve to improve the prognosis of lung SCC patients.
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