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Distinctive clinical characteristics of malignant mesothelioma in young patients.
Oncotarget - 30 Jun 2015
Thomas Anish, Chen Yuanbin, Yu Tinghui, Gill Ammara, Prasad Vinay
Abstract excerpt
Although considered a disease of the elderly, a subset of patients with mesothelioma are young (<40 years). The goal of this study was to understand their characteristics and outcomes. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was used to extract mesothelioma cases (1990-2010). We modeled Kaplan-Meyer survival curves stratified by site of disease, and age of presentation. 2% (207 of 12345)...
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