Prognostic factors for patients with localized soft-tissue sarcoma treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy: An analysis of 1225 patients

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2530-2543

  Zagars, Gunar K ^a   Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Pisters, Peter W T ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^a   Patel, Shreyaskumar R ^a   Benjamin, Robert S ^a   Evans, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Prognostic factors; Radiation therapy; Sarcoma; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLEAR CELL SARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROFIBROSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; INFANT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEXAS;

EID: 0038032024     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11365     Document Type: Article

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