Bronchial arterial interventional treatment of late stage central lung cancer

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of central bronchial artery interventional treatment of advanced lung cancer.Methods In 39 patients,25 cases received bronchial arterial chemotherapy and embolization and 14 cases received simple bronchial artery infusion chemotherapy.The tumor was hypervascular in 28 cases and 11 cases were lack of blood vessels.All patients were followed up for 6 to 12 months.Results The number of effective cases and efficient rate (complete response+partial response) were:21 cases (84.00％) in bronchial arterial chemotherapy and embolization,seven cases (50.00％) in simple bronchial arterial infusion chemotherapy,23 cases (82.14％) in rich blood vessels,five cases (45.45％) in lack of blood vessels.The results showed that efficiency of bronchial arterial chemotherapy and embolization was better than that of simple bronchial artery infusion chemotherapy (P ＜0.05),there was significant difference in efficiency between rich vascular and lack of vascular (P ＜0.05).Conclusions Bronchial arterial chemotherapy and embolization has become one of the effective method in treatment of advanced central type lung cancer. Key words: Lung cancer ;  Interventional therapy;  Bronchial artery