Malignant pleural mesothelioma: Comparison of surgery-based trimodality therapy to medical therapy at two tertiary academic institutions

•Optimal management of malignant pleural mesothelioma is still uncertain.•Multimodality treatment including pleurectomy was compared to medical therapy.•Median survival was 32 vs. 10 months in favor of multimodality treatment.•Survival benefit remained similar in propensity score-matched analyses.•P...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2021-06, Vol.156, p.151-156
Hauptverfasser:	Larose, Frédéric, Quigley, Nicholas, Lacasse, Yves, Martel, Simon, Lang-Lazdunski, Loïc
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chemotherapy Life Sciences & Biomedicine Malignant mesothelioma Mesothelioma Oncology Palliative therapy Pleural disease Pleurectomy Radiation therapy Respiratory System Science & Technology Surgery Trimodality therapy
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