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Objective: To evaluate the effect of PORT on survival and tumor control in elderly patients with pⅢA-N2 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods: All patients aged above 60 years with resected IIA-N2NSCLC in a single institution were retrospectively analyzed from January 2003 to December 2005.The effect of PORT on overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), locoregional recurrence-free survival (LRFS), and distant metastasisfree survival (DMFS) was evaluated with Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test.Pearson chi-square test was used to compare the constituent ratios between groups.Statistically significant difference was set at P<0.05.