Key result
Patient education and clinical assessment detect the vast majority of recurrent soft tissue sarcomas, with routine surveillance imaging offering significant benefit only in high-risk patients.
Why the study?
Do routine surveillance imaging and laboratory studies improve the detection of recurrent disease in patients following surgical resection of soft tissue sarcomas compared to clinical assessment alone?
Do routine surveillance imaging and laboratory studies improve the detection of recurrent disease in patients following surgical resection of soft tissue sarcomas compared to clinical assessment alone?
Routine surveillance imaging and laboratory studies offer limited benefit over thorough history and physical examination for detecting recurrence in soft tissue sarcoma patients unless the risk for asymptomatic recurrence is high.
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May support selective imaging in high-risk patients; leaves open need for prospective validation.
John M. Kane (2004) conducted a review in Soft tissue sarcomas following surgical resection. Surveillance strategies (routine imaging, laboratory studies, clinical assessment) was evaluated on Detection of recurrent disease. Patient education and clinical assessment detect the vast majority of recurrent soft tissue sarcomas, with routine surveillance imaging offering significant benefit only in high-risk patients.
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