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Multimodality treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma

2018-10-22

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Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease of the pleura and is largely related to asbestos exposure. Despite recent advancements in technologies and a greater understanding of the disease, the prognosis of MPM remains poor; the median overall survival rate is about 6 to 9 months in untreated patients. The main therapeutic strategies for MPM are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy (RT). The tw...

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Literature Corpus work: 74112e23-90b5-5cff-a18a-baab5e0ec822
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.15796.1

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