Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcomas: A treatment challenge and a call for randomized trials

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 133-136

  Nielsen, Ole Steen ^a   O'Sullivan, Brian ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036900909     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00365-1     Document Type: Editorial

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