TY - JOUR AU - Porpodis, Konstantinos AU - Zarogoulidis, Paul AU - Boutsikou, Efimia AU - Papaioannou, Antonis AU - Machairiotis, Nikolaos AU - Tsakiridis, Kosmas AU - Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos AU - Zaric, Bojan AU - Perin, Branislav AU - Huang, Haidong AU - Kougioumtzi, Ioanna AU - Spyratos, Dionysios AU - Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos PY - 2013 TI - Malignant pleural mesothelioma: current and future perspectives JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 5, Supplement 4 (September 30, 2013): Journal of Thoracic Disease (Lung cancer: an update on current and future diagnostic and treatment techniques) Y2 - 2013 KW - N2 - Mesothelioma still remains an occupational related cancer with severe outcome. It is usually diagnosed at advanced stage since it does not demonstrate early symptoms. Several efforts have been made towards removing all materials inducing mesothelioma in the work setting and new work protection measures have been applied. Although we have new targeted treatments and radical surgery as arrows in the quiver, the type of mesothelioma and early diagnosis still remain the best treatment approach. Novel treatment modalities have been explored and several others are already on the way. In the current review we will present current data for mesothelioma and future perspectives. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/1403