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Editorial
. 2024 Jun 3;65(6):ezae216.
doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezae216.

A prospective multicentre cohort study of colorectal lung metastasectomy with a nested randomized controlled trial: the key points from the pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer study

Tom Treasure  1 , Fergus Macbeth  2 , Lesley Fallowfield  3
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Editorial

A prospective multicentre cohort study of colorectal lung metastasectomy with a nested randomized controlled trial: the key points from the pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer study

Tom Treasure et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. .
No abstract available

Keywords: colorectal cancer; non-inferiority trial; prospective cohort study; pulmonary metastasectomy; randomised controlled trial; surgery.

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Figure 1:
The figure summarizes the outcome data from the PulMiCC study. In the upper panel are the Kaplan–Meier curves for elective patients who did or did not have lung metastasectomy [6]. Below is survival of randomized patients [8]. This depiction is an edited version of that published in BMJ Analysis [13].
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