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. 2020 Aug;123(4):499-500.
doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-0927-2. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

The myth of pulmonary metastasectomy

Fergus Macbeth  1 , Lesley Fallowfield  2
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The myth of pulmonary metastasectomy

Fergus Macbeth et al. Br J Cancer. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

Pulmonary metastasectomy is widely and increasingly practiced in the belief that this intervention can cure patients with colorectal cancer, and that without it few survive 5 years. No good evidence exists supporting such convictions, indeed recent trial results challenge them. What evidence underpins this acceptance of illusory truths or misconceptions?

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F.M. and L.F. were, with others, authors of the report of the PulMiCC trial and part of the trial steering committee.

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