Efficacy of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity: 20-Year follow-up of a randomized prospective trial

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2484-2489

  Beane, Joal D ^a   Yang, James C ^a   White, Donald ^a   Steinberg, Seth M ^a   Rosenberg, Steven A ^a   Rudloff, Udo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMB DEFECT; LIMB PROSTHESIS; LIMB SPARING SURGERY; LIMB TUMOR; LIMITED MOBILITY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; WOUND COMPLICATION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; LIMB; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; SARCOMA; TIME;

EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905125351     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3732-4     Document Type: Article

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