Saturday, May 11, 2013

Accurate diagnosis of mesothelioma: more important than ever

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23627448


 2013 May;137(5):601-2. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0260-ED.

Accurate diagnosis of mesothelioma: more important than ever.

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From the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler.



Progress in new surgical techniques and molecular tests holds great promise for this devastating disease. But studies, guidelines, and standards will be useless and meaningless— worse, dangerous—without the certainty that the studies and guidelines themselves, and the future therapeutic interventions they produce, are based on accurately diagnosed DMMs.

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