R734.2; Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the curative effect and adverse reaction of preoperative induction chemotherapy with gemcitabine combined with cisplatin for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: This prospective randomized controlled trial included 115 patients with locally advanced NSCLC were randomly divided into experimental and control groups and were treated from January 2007 to January 2010. The experimental group of 63 cases was treated with two cycles of induction chemotherapy before operation, radical surgery had been performed about three weeks after completion of chemotherapy, followed by received two cycles of chemotherapy. And the control group (52 cases) was treated at first with radical surgery, then treated with four cycles of chemotherapy. Two groups of the cases received routine thoracic radiotherapy with a total dose of 45 Gy. One cycle of gemcitabine combined with cisplatin regimen in-cluded gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 on day 1 and day 8 and ci

The Chinese-German journal of clinical oncology

toxicity; radical surgery; survival; gemcitabine; induction chemotherapy; non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)