Local recurrence of localized soft tissue sarcoma: A new look at old predictors

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5867-5877

  Biau, David J ^a,b,c   Ferguson, Peter C ^a,b,c   Chung, Peter ^b   Griffin, Anthony M ^a,b,c   Catton, Charles N ^b   O'Sullivan, Brian ^b   Wunder, Jay S ^a,b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

competing risk; histologic grade; local; neoplasm recurrence; radiation; sarcoma; surgical margins; tumor depth; tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIMB; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE RISK; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TRUNK; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROBABILITY; SARCOMA;

EID: 84869499447     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27639     Document Type: Article

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