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Combined modality treatment of peritoneal mesotheliomas
G S Lederman1, A Recht, T Herman
1Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
NCI Monographs : a Publication of the National Cancer Institute
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Five patients with peritoneal mesothelioma were treated with a multimodality approach consisting of debulking surgery, ip chemotherapy, and whole-abdomen irradiation. Chemotherapy included cisplatin and doxorubicin; radiation was given by an open-field technique. Three patients remain disease free at 46, 60, and 61 months after diagnosis. This treatment approach may serve as a model for common tumors characterized by abdominal carcinomatosis.