The myth of pulmonary metastasectomy

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 underpi...

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Autores principales: Macbeth, Fergus, Fallowfield, Lesley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32541870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0927-2
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spelling pubmed-74352692021-06-16 The myth of pulmonary metastasectomy Macbeth, Fergus Fallowfield, Lesley Br J Cancer Comment 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? Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-06-16 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7435269/ /pubmed/32541870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0927-2 Text en © Cancer Research UK 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Note This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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