Radiographic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a predictor of local control and survival in soft tissue sarcomas

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1120-1126

  Meric, Funda ^a   Hess, Kenneth R ^a   Varma, Datla G K ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Pisters, Peter W T ^a   Milas, Kresimira M ^a   Patel, Shreyaskumar R ^a   Benjamin, Robert S ^a   Plager, Carl ^a   Papadopoulos, Nicholas E J ^a   Burgess, Michael A ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^a   Feig, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Preoperative; Response; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; IDARUBICIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL KILLING; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036720472     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10794     Document Type: Article

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