A new study further supports the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of retroperitoneal sarcoma. The finding comes from two large case-control analyses of 9068 patients with localized primary ...

Impact of Accuracy of Survival Predictions on Quality of End-of-Life Care Among Patients With Metastatic Cancer Who Receive Radiation Therapy Surgery continues to be the dominant therapy for the ...

To define the optimal initial management and the best extent of surgery that would optimize margins on primary retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS). Patients and Methods A total of 382 patients with primary ...

In this video, Chandrajit Raut, MD, MS, discussed results from the first study using a registry trying to “raise the quality of surgery” for retroperitoneal sarcomas, which was presented at the ...

Fragmented care - receiving medical treatment at more than one facility - has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as ...

Fragmented care — receiving medical treatment at more than one facility — has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as ...

A 52-year-old man had a radical right colectomy for a sarcoma of the cecal wall (high grade of malignancy, 10 cells/field). On a postoperative computerized tomography (CT) scan 2 months later, a 3-cm ...

Sarcomas are tumors that form in the body’s connective tissues such as bone, muscle and fat. They are rare and, because there are more than 150 types, patients benefit from seeing a sarcoma specialist ...

AI could be nearly twice as accurate as biopsies at assessing the aggressiveness of some rare types of cancer, a new study suggests. According to researchers this could save the lives of thousands of ...

The report is based on the experience of a patient with recurrent retroperitoneal DDLPS and is believed to be the first reported case in which such a patient achieved a pathological complete response ...