On average, the life expectancy of peritoneal mesothelioma patients is 12 months. However, multiple studies have shown that patients who have cytoreduction with HIPEC experience significantly longer survival times. Many patients now survive up to 5 years and some even live beyond 7 years.
It was written by co-creator Mark Gatiss, who also portrays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother in the series, and was directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode is a contemporary adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's most famous works.
Nigel Bruce, right, played Dr. Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in 14 films. Robert Duvall played Dr. Watson opposite Nicol Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1976 Oscar-nominated film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on the novel by Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer. In the film, Watson tricks Holmes into going under the care of Dr. Sigmund Freud.