• Thoracic surgery clinics · May 2006

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    Surgery for colorectal and sarcomatous pulmonary metastases: history, current management, and future directions.

    • Robert J Downey.
    • Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA. downeyr@mskcc.org
    • Thorac Surg Clin. 2006 May 1; 16 (2): 133-7, v-vi.

    AbstractThis article provides a historical review of metastasectomy, reviews current surgical management approaches, and proposes what direction future research must take to determine whether there is a survival advantage associated with pulmonary metastasectomy and how best to integrate metastasectomy with medical therapies, primarily induction, and adjuvant chemotherapy.

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