Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for patients with high-risk extremity and truncal sarcomas: A 10-year single institution retrospective study

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 875-883

  Hong, Nicole J Look ^a   Hornicek, Francis J ^a   Harmon, David C ^a   Choy, Edwin ^a   Chen, Yen Lin ^a   Yoon, Sam S ^a   Nielsen, G Petur ^a   Szymonifka, Jackie ^a   Yeap, Beow Y ^a   Delaney, Thomas F ^a   Mullen, John T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Chemotherapy; Neoadjuvant; Radiation; Recurrence; Sarcoma; Survival; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MESNA;

ANEMIA; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CELLULITIS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYXOFIBROSARCOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PILOT STUDY; PLEOMORPHIC SARCOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; MESNA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873704530     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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