Multimodality treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma
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Multimodality therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a rare disease for which neither single modality nor bimodality therapy improves survival. For this reason, from 1980 to 1995, we used trimodality therapy in an attempt to improve survival in selected patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. One hundred twenty patients underwent trimodality treatment involving extrapleural pneumonectomy followed...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.15796.1