Effect of postoperative systemic therapy on pulmonary adenocarcinoma with unexpected pleural spread detected during thoracotomy or thoracoscopy.
Conclusions: In pulmonary adenocarcinoma patients with unexpected pleural spread detected during surgery, main tumor resection and EGFR-TKI therapy correlated with better survival. Identifying EGFR mutation status before surgery can provide useful information for clinical decision during surgery.
PMID: 29435191 [PubMed]
Source: Oncotarget - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Oncotarget Source Type: research
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