I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Toni Wozniak, Moedical Oncologist and lung cancer expert at the Barbara A. Karmanos Cancer Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. We covered several topics, including SCLC, the subject of this podcast. It is an audio interview but includes a few figures that are synchronized with the audio on the video version, or you can download the pdf of the figures and just follow along with the audio.

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In a previous post I described the open question about whether patients with locally advanced NSCLC should receive prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) after completing chemo and chest irradiation.

As I described in prior post, prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is established as a treatment approach for patients with LD-SCLC who have had a complete or "good partial" response to chemo and radiation. Some physicians also recommend PCI for patients with ED-SCLC who have experienced a very good response, since about 10% of the patients on the PCI trials that led to our current recommendations had ED-SCLC.