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SUBMITTER: McCambridge AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544834 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 20180308 5
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an uncommon, almost universally fatal, asbestos-induced malignancy. New and effective strategies for diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment are urgently needed. Herein we review the advances in MPM achieved in 2017. Whereas recent epidemiological data demonstrated that the incidence of MPM-related death continued to increase in United States between 2009 and 2015, new insight into the molecular pathogenesis and the immunological tumor microenvironment o ...[more]