More from CTOS 2008 - Redo Pulmonary Metastectomy

[Fictional]

Found this encouraging Powerpoint from UK: http://www.ctos.org/meeting/2008/presen ... jordan.ppt also at the CTOS meeting.

It suggested redo metastastecomies are worthwhile. The question one could ask is whether the patients who were candidates for the surgery were in a more favorable group anyway (this is a point that our UCLA surgeon raised). It looked as if most redos were in the 2-4 range though and perhaps the disease became more indolent with time (steepest slope in the first 4 years). 'F'

[Ivan]

Interesting data. It certainly seems to suggest that if you make it through the first 5 years, you somehow have a pretty good chance. That must imply some selection criteria, because otherwise I'm not feeling it

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This is really interesting. Improved survival is not associated with a smaller number of metastases. Good news for me haha.