TURKISH CLINICAL GUIDELINE FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA
EUROSİAN JOURNAL OF PULMONOLOGY, cilt.17, ss.1-21, 2015 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 17
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Dergi Adı: EUROSİAN JOURNAL OF PULMONOLOGY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-21
- Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Objective: Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) is a an important public health problem in Turkey. In order to establish a common ground, Turkish Mesothelioma Working Group was established in 2011. Currently 150 academicians/ researches from various disciplines (pulmonary medicine, thoracic surgery, medical and radiation oncology, radiology, pathology, nuclear medicine, public and mineralogy) from 40 universities, 5 training and 2 occupational hospitals have joined this group. The main aim of this effort was to finalize a "Guide for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Standards" that would be used in the epidemiologic evaluation, clinical diagnosis and treatment of MPM patients.