Should Treatment of Mesothelioma Include Surgery? MARS2 Fails to Land.

Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. Electronic address:

Published: July 2024

The presentation of the Mesothelioma and Radical Surgery 2 trial, a randomized controlled trial comparing pleurectomy/decortication to no surgery, injected new data into the contentious discussion surrounding the use of surgery in the management of diffuse pleural mesothelioma. We review the trial results in the context of the existing work surrounding the use of surgery in pleural mesothelioma.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.semtcvs.2024.07.001DOI Listing

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