# OnCo record pleurectomy-decortication (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/pleurectomy-decortication/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "pleurectomy-decortication" ;
  schema:name "Extended pleurectomy/decortication & radical mesothelioma surgery"@en ;
  schema:description "Pleurectomy and decortication are operations that strip the tumour-bearing lining from the lung and chest wall. They were long assumed to help; the MARS 2 trial showed they do not."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/pleurectomy-decortication/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-07"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurectomy> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurectomy> ;
  onco:status "historic" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/mars-2/> .