What Should Patients Ask Surgeons Before Mesothelioma Surgery?

If I were a patient, seeing a surgeon for surgical therapy of this disease. I would wanna know a few things. First would be, was this discussion, one where all the different players so to speak were involved in. Was this a multi mode group of people, we begin with radiation, medical oncology, pathology, radiology, etcetera, pulmonology, where a group of people decided that this was a good situation for surgery. That's first question. So it is not a surgeon making that decision. The second question which is very important is I would want to know how many times my surgeon went into the operating room to do the surgery and backed out. That, I think, is the most important question from a surgeon, from a surgeon standpoint who perhaps becomes a patient with mesotilio. If if it is very important to understand that, we should be operating on far fewer patients to the point of completion than backing out when we find that the disease is further along than what we thought. Because there is no question that the data shows that that type of aggressive approach does not work for the And, and unfortunately, if the surgeons continue to be aggressive and operate on patients who really shouldn't be having surgery, what happens is we don't understand the true role of surgery in this disease, and patients will never be sent to surgery even when they need surgery because the outcomes are not going to be. So this is if we're going to change the world of mesothelioma, We need to stop wearing the surgeon's hat, but wear the thoracic and mesothelioma oncologist hat and understand how you deal with disease with this disease with a multi modality approach.