Solid Cancer

Data from University of Michigan advance knowledge in solid cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 10th, 2008

"Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of malignancies arising from mesenchymal tissues. A large number of new therapies are being evaluated in patients with sarcomas, and consensus criteria defining treatment responses are essential for comparison of results from studies completed by different research groups," researchers in the United States report.

"The 1979 World Health Organization (WHO) handbook set forth operationally defined criteria for response evaluation in solid tumors that were updated in 2000 with the publication of the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). There have been significant advances in tumor imaging, however, that are...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)

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