Journal of Thoracic Disease 2016 November [Link] Fukui T, Yokoi K Abstract Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) associated with carcinomatous pleuritis are currently classified as having stage IV disease per the 7th edition of the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) system, which means that the disease is deemed incurable. In fact, the 5-year survival rate of…

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Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2011 Mar;6(3):602-5. [Link] Kao SC, Yan TD, Lee K, Burn J, Henderson DW, Klebe S, Kennedy C, Vardy J, Clarke S, van Zandwijk N, McCaughan BC. Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, Bernie Banton Centre, Sydney, Australia. Abstract Introduction: Histological subtype is an established prognostic factor in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). We retrospectively…

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