Radiation therapy in the palliative management of soft tissue sarcomas

✍ Scribed by Harold Perry; Florence C. H. Chu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 397 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(196201/02)15:1<179::aid-cncr2820150125>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

OFT TISSUE SARCOMAS are relatively uncom-S mon. The management of this group of sarcomas has been primarily surgical.1-* Although radiation therapy has been used preoperatively, postoperatively, and for the treatment of recurrent, residual, or metastatic disease, its efficacy has not been fully assessed. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the role of ionizing radiation in the palliative management of these neoplasms.

Between Jan. 1, 1949, and Dec. 31, 1959, 104 patients with soft tissue sarcomas were treated in the Department of Radiation Therapy of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, N.Y. In all cases reported here there was a positive histological diagnosis. When possible, all available slides made from biopsy, operative, and/or autopsy material were reviewed by the Department of Pathology of the hospital. The term "spindle cell sarcoma" was applied to those cases in which the histological findings did not permit further classification.

The distribution of the 104 cases according to histological type was as follows: liposarcoma,