Inclusion Criteria | |
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1) Patients providing the written informed consent | |
2) Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer histopathologically confirmed | |
3) Patients with total resection in pathological clinical stage II - IIIA with more than one lobe excision was carried out | |
4) Patients with lymphadenectomy more than ND2a-1 or selective lymphadenectomy | |
The selection method of the mediastinal lymph node dissected obeys the following criteria | |
●Right upper lobe lung cancer (LC); No.2R,4R | |
●Left upper lobe segmentum superius LC; No. 4 L-6 | |
●Right middle lobe LC; | No.2R,4R,7 |
●Left upper lobe lingual LC; No.4 L-7 | |
●Right lower lobe LC; No.7–9 | |
●Left lower lobe LC; No.7–9 | |
5) Patients without pre-treatment (radiation, chemotherapy) other than surgical treatment | |
6) Patients who passed more than 28 days and less than 56 days after the operation at enrollment | |
7) Patient is at least 20 years and less than 75 years of age (at enrollment date). | |
8) Patients capable of treatment with oral medicine. | |
9) Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0–1 | |
10) Patients having sufficient bone marrow, liver and renal function tolerable to chemotherapy | |
Exclusion Criteria | |
1) Patients with active double cancer (synchronous double cancer and asynchronous double cancer within 5 years of progression-free period) | |
2) Patients with anamnesis of drug-induced hypersensitivity. | |
3) Patients with severe postoperative complications (such as postoperative infection, rapture suture). | |
4) Patients with severe complications (such as diarrhoea, intestinal paralysis, ileus, uncontrollable diabetes mellitus, heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure). | |
5) Patients with interstitial pattern recognized as apparent interstitial pneumonia in chest CT. | |
6) Patients with active infection. | |
7) Female patients pregnant or possibly pregnant (will), or nursing. | |
8) Patients under treatment with a type of fluorinated pyrimidine antineoplastic. | |
9) Patients under treatment of flucytosine. |