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Does Surgery Improve Survival of Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma?: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 1365 Consecutive Patients

P. Bovolato,C. Casadio,9 Authors,U. Pastorino

2014 · DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000064
Journal of Thoracic Oncology · 139 Citations

TLDR

It is suggested that patients with good prognostic factors had a similar survival whether they received medical therapy only, P/D, or EPP, and a large multicenter, randomized trial, testing P/d after induction chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in MPM patients withGood prognostic Factors, is needed.