Publications by authors named "K Furrer"
Objective: To test the safety and efficacy of combination treatment for pleural mesothelioma (PM) with intracavitary cisplatin-fibrin (cis-fib) plus hemithoracic irradiation (IR) applied after lung-sparing surgery in an orthotopic immunocompetent rat model.
Methods: We randomized male F344 rats into 5 groups: cis-fib (n = 9), 10 Gy IR (n = 6), 20 Gy IR (n = 9), cis-fib+10 Gy IR (n = 6), and cis-fib+20 Gy IR (n = 9). Subpleural tumor implantation was performed on day 0 with 1 million syngeneic rat mesothelioma cells (IL45-luciferase).
Smoking prevention in schoolchildren to inform and prevent smoking initiation has been widely studied; however, the potential effect of interventions provided in a hospital setting is unknown. An intervention program named "Schoolchildren smoking prevention in the hospital" was developed in which the health aspects of smoking and its individual consequences were presented in an interactive informational event provided by a thoracic surgeon and a pulmonologist. We aimed to assess the feasibility and the short-term effect of smoking-related knowledge improvement in schoolchildren in a hospital setting.
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- Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has a high local recurrence rate, and this study aims to create a new score to predict these recurrence patterns and their impact on patient prognosis.
- The study analyzed 128 MPM patients who experienced local recurrence after surgery, examining survival outcomes based on a new local recurrence score (LRS) based on tumor distribution in the thoracic cavity.
- Results showed that patients with chest wall and lymph node recurrences had shorter survival, and those with lower LRS benefited more from radiotherapy/local surgery, while higher LRS patients did better with chemotherapy, suggesting LRS can help tailor second-line treatments.
Objective: Surgical treatment of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer including single or multilevel N2 remains a matter of debate. Several trials demonstrate that selected patients benefit from surgery if R0 resection is achieved. We aimed to assess resectability and outcome of patients with locally advanced clinical T3/T4 (American Joint Committee on Cancer 8 edition) tumors after induction treatment followed by surgery in a pooled analysis of 3 prospective multicenter trials.
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