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Review
. 2003 Jul;12(3):605-21, xi.
doi: 10.1016/s1055-3207(03)00045-0.

A review of peritoneal mesothelioma at the Washington Cancer Institute

Paul H Sugarbaker  1 , Laura S Welch, Faheez Mohamed, Olivier Glehen
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A review of peritoneal mesothelioma at the Washington Cancer Institute

Paul H Sugarbaker et al. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2003 Jul.

Abstract

This article reviews a single institution's experience with 68 patients (21 females, 47 males) prospectively treated over the last 2 decades with an aggressive local-regional approach, combining maximal cytoreductive surgery with heated intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy and early postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy. This multimodality treatment has resulted in a median survival of 67 months. Female patients had a significantly better prognosis than males. The other significant predictive factors of survival were: age, diagnosis by incidental findings, tumor extent, pathology, and completeness of cytoreduction.

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