Why the study?
Does postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy improve survival or local recurrence-free survival in adults with small soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity?
Population
174 adult patients with small soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity, identified from a database of 1742…
Comparison
Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation… vs No postoperative treatment
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Median 48 months
Authors
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Supports observation alone for small extremity soft-tissue sarcomas; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation.
Does postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy improve survival or local recurrence-free survival in adults with small soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity?
Small soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremity have a favorable prognosis with a 94% 5-year survival rate, and adjuvant therapy does not appear to improve survival or recurrence-free survival.
R. Geer (1992) studied this question.
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