The effectiveness and safety of platinum-based pemetrexed and platinum-based gemcitabine treatment in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma


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AK G., METİNTAŞ S., Akarsu M., METİNTAŞ M.

BMC CANCER, cilt.15, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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Background: We aimed to evaluate the efficiency and safety of cis/carboplatin plus gemcitabine, which was previously used for mesothelioma but with no recorded proof of its efficiency, compared with cis/carboplatin plus pemetrexed, which is known to be effective in mesothelioma, in comparable historical groups of malignant pleural mesothelioma.