Key result
Surgery plus radiochemotherapy achieves over 3 years of survival in a primary cardiac angiosarcoma case.
Design
Case report
Follow-up
more than three years
Authors
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Supports multimodal therapy as a potential option in select young patients with cardiac angiosarcoma; leaves open the need for prospective data.
Case Report (n=1)
No
This case report demonstrates a survival of over three years in a patient with primary cardiac angiosarcoma treated with surgical resection and radiochemotherapy.
Fukunaga et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac angiosarcoma (n=1). Surgical resection and radiochemotherapy was evaluated on Survival. Surgical resection combined with radiochemotherapy achieved a survival of more than three years in an 18-year-old female with primary cardiac angiosarcoma before she died of liver metastasis.
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