Soft-Tissue Sarcoma

Careful assessment is required before amputation for soft-tissue sarcoma

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 12th, 2003

Careful assessment is required before amputation for soft-tissue sarcoma. "Soft-tissue sarcomas are a group of rare malignant tumors, many of which arise in the limbs," researchers in England report.

"Most are treated with a combination of wide local excision and radiotherapy, but a small number -- including proximal, large, high-grade, or recurrent tumors, or those involving major neurovascular structures -- necessitate major amputation including forequarter or hindquarter amputation," wrote M.A. Clark and colleagues, Royal Marsden Hospital, Melanoma & Sarcoma Unit.

"These uncommon operations should remain in the surgical armamentarium for carefully...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-08-12)

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