Surveillance strategies for patients following surgical resection of soft tissue sarcomas

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 328-332

  Kane III, John M ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Follow up; Soft tissue sarcoma; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG METASTASIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE;

EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042803822     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cco.0000127879.62254.d3     Document Type: Review

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