title: Surgery for colorectal and sarcomatous pulmonary metastases: history, current management, and future directions.
abstract: This article provides a historical review of metastasectomy, reviews current surgical management approaches, and proposes what direction future research must take to determine whether there is a survival advantage associated with pulmonary metastasectomy and how best to integrate metastasectomy with medical therapies, primarily induction, and adjuvant chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA. downeyr@mskcc.org
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Downey
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D013510:Pulmonary Surgical Procedures / Q000639:trends*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*