Compliance with national comprehensive cancer network guidelines in the use of radiation therapy for extremity and superficial trunk soft tissue sarcoma in the United States

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 633-638

  Bagaria, Sanjay P ^a   Ashman, Jonathan B ^b   Daugherty, Larry C ^b   Gray, Richard J ^b   Wasif, Nabil ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

NCCN guidelines; outcomes; radiation therapy; soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; UNITED STATES;

NCCN GUIDELINES; OUTCOMES; RADIATION THERAPY; SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMA;

ADULT; AGED; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SARCOMA; SEER PROGRAM; TORSO;

EID: 84899555588     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23569     Document Type: Article

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