Complications and Prognosis of Mesothelioma

Complications:

• The tumor recurrence rate is 50% for those treated with surgery.
• The mortality rate secondary to surgery has improved.

Prognosis:

• Without treatment, mesothelioma is fatal within 4-8 months.
• With trimodality treatment, some patients have survived 16-19 months. A few have survived as long as 5 years, with rates of 14% for all types and 46% for the epithelial type. However, numbers are small.

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