Erschienen in:
01.08.2014 | Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Population-Based Registries are Important in Sarcoma: An Editorial Regarding “Incidence Patterns of Primary Bone Cancer in Taiwan (2003–2010)”
verfasst von:
Benjamin J. Miller, MD, MS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 8/2014
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Excerpt
Ernest Codman is a well-known figure in musculoskeletal oncology. He is the source of common eponyms, such as ‘Codman’s triangle’, the radiographic appearance of a periosteal reaction stimulated by an adjacent osseous malignancy, and ‘Codman’s tumor’, more commonly referred to as a chondroblastoma. In addition, he was an early advocate of recording and analyzing ‘end results’ to truly assess the final outcomes of an intervention.
1 In fact, with assistance from the family of a presumed sarcoma patient and the American College of Surgeons, he established the Registry of Bone Sarcoma in 1921 to make a record of any living patients cured of sarcoma, and to determine the means of attaining cure in those individuals.
2 These simple goals manifested into the first concerted effort to document survival statistics, consolidate nomenclature, and determine the methods of cure in sarcoma. Although this initial effort was in a time before aggressive limb salvage, magnetic resonance imaging, modern chemotherapy, and the Internet, its basic goals and challenges continue to be relevant today. …
