Does radical surgical treatment provide similar prognostic benefits in recurrent intraabdominal and retroperitoneal soft-tissue sarcomas compared to primary tumors?
Radical surgery for recurrent intraabdominal and retroperitoneal soft-tissue sarcomas offers a prognosis comparable to primary sarcomas and should not be viewed merely as palliative.
The radicality of surgery is the most important prognostic factor. Patients with recurrence have an equally good prognosis as those with primary sarcoma if radicality is achieved and such surgery should not be considered only as a palliative effort.
Sogaard et al. (Sun,) studied this question.