Study: Less-Invasive Mesothelioma Surgery Yields Better Results

A team of researchers at the Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Japan, studied the outcomes for pleural mesothelioma patients who received surgery at their facility between 2004 and 2016. The results: More aggressive surgery did not help mesothelioma patients live longer. “We showed that introducing less-invasive surgical techniques could decrease surgical risks without compromising survival,” the researchers wrote in their study, published in January in Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. “Surgery that is less invasive than conventional extrapleural pneumonectomy could achieve lower surgical risk without compromising survival in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.” The focus on finding less-invasive and better-tolerated pleural mesothelioma surgery techniques is important for improving outcomes of patients diagnosed with this asbestos-related cancer. Less Is More with Mesothelioma Surgery In the study, researchers collected information on nearly every mesothelioma patient scheduled to undergo surgery at their facility between April 2004 and July 2016. Of the 152 patients, 117 received one of three surgical procedures: Group 1 underwent conventional extrapleural pneumonectomy Group 2 received less-invasive extrapleural pneumonectomy Group 3 underwent a pleurectomy and decortication 
 Nearly all of the patients — 92 percent of them — were diagnosed with epithelial cell mesothelioma. All but three patients received n...
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