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Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
July 23rd, 2007
Soft tissue sarcomas---rare tumours of the connective tissue---should be treated at the few centres which see most cases, in order to give patients the best chance of good outcomes, concludes an analysis of sarcoma management in Florida, published in the Annals of Surgery. “STS [soft tissue sarcomas] are rare. This paucity leaves most health care institutions with low case volumes and outdated or inadequate resources, which impede the ability to offer optimal treatment of these rare and often complicated tumours,” the authors from The European School of Oncology, in Milano, Italy, explain. Using an analysis of a large population-based state cancer...
Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2007-07-23)
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