Chest
Volume 116, Issue 2, August 1999, Pages 504-520
ReviewsAdvances in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
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Key words
chemotherapy
extrapleural pneumonectomy
gene therapy
immunotherapy
mesothelioma
photodynamic therapy
pleurectomy
pleurodesis
pneumonectomy
radiation
Abbreviations
Ad.HSVtk
replication-deficient adenovirus encodingherpes simplex thymidine kinase
EPP
extrapleuralpneumonectomy
18-FDG
18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose
GCV
ganciclovir
GM-CSF
granulocyte-macrophagecolony-stimulating factor
Hp D
hematoporphyrin derivative
HSVtk
herpes simplex thymidine kinase
IFN
interferon
IL
interleukin
LAK
lymphokine-activatedkiller
m-THPC
meta-tetrahydroxyl phenylchlorin
PA1-STK
ovarian carcinoma cell line retrovirally transfected with HSVtk
PCR
polymerase chain reaction
PDT
photodynamic therapy
PET
positron emission tomography
pfu
plaque-forming unit
TGF-β
transforming growthfactor-β
VV
vaccinia virus
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