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