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Fergus Macbeth1, Lesley Fallowfield2
1Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4YS, UK. Frmacad@btinternet.com.
British Journal of Cancer
|June 17, 2020
Abstract:
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?

