Advances in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Department of Surgery Grand Rounds October 16, 2013 Andrea S. Wolf, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Objectives: -Understand the rationale for Multimodality Therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma. -Discuss gender differences in presentation of malignant pleural mesothelioma and what that may mean for other thoracic cancers.