Published in Cancer Weekly, December 16th, 2008
"At present, connections concerning the etiology of this neoplasm with radiation therapy, exposure to environmental carcinogens and chronic lymphedema have been described. Due to the difficult histologic evaluation, high local recurrence and tendency to early metastasing, angiosarcoma poses generally a very poor prognosis," wrote S. Gkalpakiotis and colleagues, Charles University.
The researchers concluded: "We report the case of an 80-year-old patient who experienced...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-16)
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