The relative roles of surgery and radiotherapy in the management of soft tissue sarcomas of adults: A personal appraisal
β Scribed by L.A. Firth
- Book ID
- 117079310
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 401 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-9260
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Concepts of the current management of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) of the extremities in adults are presented. The roles of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy as well as the combination of these modalities are reviewed. The addition of radiation therapy to less than radical surgery has resulted in h
Radiation in moderate dose levels, viz. 60-65 Gy at 2 Gylfraction, administered in combination with conservative surgery, yields local control frequencies at least comparable to those achieved by radical resectional surgery alone. The clinical interest in this management strategy is the reduction in