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Mount Sinai Study Strengthens Landmark Evidence Supporting Lung-Sparing Surgery, Offering Hope for Mesothelioma Patients

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center finds that pleurectomy/decortication, a lung-sparing surgery, can be performed safely with low mortality in carefully selected patients with pleural mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer most often caused by asbestos exposure.

February 12, 2026


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