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Section Type: METHODS

Text: Patients with medically inoperable Stage II, unresectable IIIA and IIIB nonsmall cell lung cancer with KPS > or = 70 and weight loss < or = 5 % were randomized to one of three treatment groups : standard radiation therapy with 60 Gy at 2. 0 Gy per day (STD RT), induction chemotherapy with cisplatin 100 mg/m2 days 1 and 29 with vinblastine 5 mg/m2 weekly for 5 weeks followed by 60 Gy at 2. 0 Gy per day (CT + RT), or hyperfractionated radiation therapy with 69. 6 Gy at 1. 2 Gy b. i. d. (HFX RT).