Long-term clinical outcome of patients with soft tissue sarcomas treated with limb-sparing surgery and postoperative radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 745-752

  Felderhof, Joeke M ^a   Creutzberg, Carien L ^a   Putter, Hein ^a   Nout, Remi A ^a   Bovée, Judith V M G ^a   Dijkstra, P D Sander ^a   Hartgrink, Henk H ^a   Marijnen, Corrie A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTRACTURE; DERMATITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT FUNCTION; LIMB; LIMB PERFUSION; LIMB SPARING SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANGE OF MOTION; RASH; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; ACUTE TOXICITY; CANCER PATIENT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875949360     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2012.709947     Document Type: Article

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