Margin Status, Local Recurrence, and Survival: Correlation or Causation?

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-267

  Nurkin, Steven J ^a   Kane, John M ^a,b  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Margin status; Sarcoma; Sarcoma recurrence and survival

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RESECTION MARGIN; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; WIDE EXCISION;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857433390     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: 15585042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2011.12.002     Document Type: Review

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