Erschienen in:
27.02.2018 | Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Managing Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma Patients: Surgery Alone or in Combination with Radiotherapy? An Editorial on the Paper by Fiore et al.
verfasst von:
Rick Haas, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 6/2018
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Excerpt
Dr Fiore and colleagues are to be congratulated on their analysis of local control probability after surgery alone in high-risk extremity soft tissue sarcomas (ESTSs).
1 Although both national comprehensive cancer network (NCCN)
2 and European society for medical oncology (ESMO)
3 guidelines suggest combining limb salvage surgery with radiotherapy (RT), and although no data are currently available from randomized studies suggesting to refrain from RT, the results from the study by Dr Fiore et al. are remarkable in several ways, but also need to be considered in the right perspective. …