Comparison of video-assisted pleurectomy/decortication surgery plus hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy with VATS talc pleurodesis for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma: A pilot study

Autor: Marcello Migliore, Maria Fiore, Tommaso Filippini, Rosario Tumino, Mara Sabbioni, Corrado Spatola, Riccardo Polosa, Paolo Vigneri, Marco Nardini, Sergio Castorina, Francesco Basile, Margherita Ferrante
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Heliyon, Vol 9, Iss 6, Pp e16685- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2405-8440
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16685
Popis: Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC) adjunct to surgery for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) has no definite role. The primary objective of this pilot-trial was to evaluate the feasibility for future large studies. The study design was a prospective randomized three-centric pilot trial. We recruited patients diagnosed with MPM and prospectively assigned them to two groups: Group A: Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) talc pleurodesis or Group B: Video-assisted P/D plus HITHOC. From November-2011 to July-2017 24 males and 3 females, with a median age of 68-years were enrolled (recruitment rate 5 patients/year). Preoperative stage was I-II, and 18 had epithelioid type. 14 patients were in the Group A. Operative mortality was 0. Follow-up ranged 6–80 months. The median overall survival time started to diverge at 20 months, being 19 months (95% CI 12–25) in Group A and 28 months (95% CI 0–56) in Group B. Survival rate for the epithelioid type was 15 months (95% CI 0–34) in Group A and 45 months (95% CI 0–107) in the Group B. These findings suggest that video-assisted P/D plus HITHOC may improve survival time in MPM patients undergoing surgical treatment and support the need for a larger multicenter randomized clinical trial.
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