Radiation therapy for extremity soft tissue sarcoma: In the absence of a clear survival benefit, why do we give it?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2463-2465

  Baldini, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Raut, Chandrajit ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDEMA; EDITORIAL; EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB DISEASE; LIMB SPARING SURGERY; LIMB TUMOR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ONCOLOGIST; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN FIBROSIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND COMPLICATION; LIMB; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA;

EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84905108434     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3735-1     Document Type: Editorial

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