The role of surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma encompasses the need ... this disease has been gleaned by studying the surgical pathology of patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy.

The Ceresoli et al study had shown significant correlation of TTP to good PS and to epithelial histology ... in chemotherapy-naive patients with mesothelioma. The Santoro et al study is based ...

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