ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ

Object moved to here.

Locally Advanced Relapse May Not Be Equal to Stage 3 Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer—Reply | Oncology | JAMA Oncology | ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Network

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ

[Skip to Navigation]
Sign In
Comment & Response
´¡±è°ù¾±±ôÌý4, 2024

Locally Advanced Relapse May Not Be Equal to Stage 3 Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer—Reply

Author Affiliations
  • 1Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe City, Japan
  • 2Department of Radiation Oncology, Hyogo Cancer Center, Akashi City, Japan
JAMA Oncol. Published online April 4, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.0234

In Reply We appreciate Akamatsu for addressing some important points regarding our first prospective study evaluating the efficacy and safety of immunotherapy and concurrent radiotherapy for locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without chemotherapy.1 First, we fully agree with the comments by Akamatsu, suggesting that the inclusion of locally advanced recurrence may overestimate the efficacy outcome. That is why we mentioned in the Discussion that immunoradiotherapy is likely to have a greater effect for postoperative recurrence and stated this in the Limitations. Because postoperative recurrence was allowed in the PACIFIC trial,2 it was also allowed in the trial. As a result, a large number (25.7%) of postoperative recurrences were enrolled.

×