[Combined treatment of recurrent lung cancer]

The combined treatment of 36 patients for a pulmonary cancer recurrence included the performance of preoperative radiotherapy, reoperation and postoperative polychemotherapy. After reoperation, 3 (8.3%) patients died. In 17 of the 28 patients, the treatment was ineffective, all of them died. The mean lifetime was 20.8 mos. Eleven patients are alive for from 2 to 50 mos with no tumor recurrences, or metastases revealed.