High Dose Radiation Therapy With Concurrent Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients with any component of small cell lung carcinoma are excluded from this study.
• •Patients with evidence of a malignant pleural or pericardial effusion are excluded.
• •Prior radiotherapy that would overlap the radiation fields.
• •Uncontrolled concurrent illness including, but not limited to: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) exacerbation or other respiratory illness, serious uncontrolled infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF),unstable angina pectoris, uncontrolled hypertension,or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with the study requirements.
• •Known hypersensitivity to paclitaxel.
• •Any other condition or circumstance that would, in the opinion of the Investigator, make the patient unsuitable for participation in the study.
• •Conditions precluding medical follow-up and protocol compliance