Invited commentary

Our plain-English summary of Invited commentary, by H.I. Pass (The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2012).

The study

• Author: H.I. Pass
• Journal: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• Published: 2012;94(4):1092-3
• Type of article: Comment
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

This was a short invited commentary, not a research study. The author wrote it about an article by Mollberg and colleagues on quality of life after radical pleurectomy decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma, and it presented no new study or detailed data. The author wrote that pleurectomy decortication, standard or extended, was challenging extrapleural pneumonectomy as the standard for stage I and stage II mesothelioma in selected patients with minimal symptoms, who may have less bulky than average or fluid-dominant disease. The author said data showing preserved function after radical pleurectomy decortication mattered because the disease will recur in most patients, who will need further treatment. The author stated that a stage-by-stage randomized comparison of quality of life after the two operations will never be done. Citing personal data not presented in the commentary, the author said patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy have shorter survival than those receiving pleurectomy decortication. The author attributed this partly to patients with one lung not being treatable with the same dose intensity. The author concluded that a functional mesothelioma patient is a treatable patient.

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What the study did and found

• Design: invited commentary (opinion piece responding to another article); no original study
• Who was studied: No population was studied. The commentary discusses the article by Mollberg and colleagues on quality of life after radical pleurectomy decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma.
• Exposure: No asbestos exposure was studied. The topic is surgery for pleural mesothelioma: pleurectomy decortication (standard or extended) compared with extrapleural pneumonectomy, particularly for patients with minimal symptoms and stage I or stage II disease.
• The authors' conclusion: The author's view was that a functional mesothelioma patient is a treatable patient, and that data showing function is preserved after radical pleurectomy decortication matter because the disease will recur in most patients.

Topics

The National Library of Medicine indexes this study under subjects our site covers: Mesothelioma.

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