Soft tissue sarcomas: thirteen years experience in the service of medical oncology of a general hospital
Espinosa, E.; González Barón, M.; Zamora, P.; García de Paredes, M.L.; Espinosa, J.
Neoplasma 40(5): 333-335
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2685 PMID: 8272164 Document Number: 417155
Thirty-seven patients with soft tissue sarcomas were treated between 1981 and 1990. All of them were operated. Thirteen patients with marginal resection received adjuvant radiotherapy. Radiotherapy decreased the rate of local relapses. Sixteen patients received adjuvant chemotherapy with ifosfamide-epirubicin and four of them had a recurrence. Twenty-one patients did not receive chemotherapy and 13 of them relapsed. Adjuvant chemotherapy improved the disease-free survival during the first year, but not benefit appeared in long-term disease-free survival and overall survival.