Epithelial tumors constitute 40% of MPMs and ... In 1994, the International Mesothelioma Interest Group developed a staging system based on the TNM system for lung cancer. None of the proposed ...

[63] All clinicians who care for patients with mesothelioma have a common goal ... negative extrapleural nodes and epithelial histology in our 1999 series was 51 months with trimodality therapy.