Outcomes of unplanned sarcoma excision: Impact of residual disease

C Charoenlap; J Imanishi; T Tanaka; J Slavin; SY Ngan; S Chander; MM Dowsey; C Goyal; PFM Choong

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Outcomes of unplanned sarcoma excision: Impact of residual disease

C Charoenlap, J Imanishi, T Tanaka, J Slavin, SY Ngan, S Chander, MM Dowsey, C Goyal, PFM Choong

Cancer Medicine | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1002/cam4.615

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Abstract

© 2016 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.This study aimed to compare the oncological results between unplanned excision (UE) and planned excision (PE) of malignant soft tissue tumor and to examine the impact of residual tumor (ReT) after UE. Nonmetastatic soft tissue sarcomas surgically treated in 1996-2012 were included in this study. Disease-specific survival (DSS), metastasis-free survival (MFS), and local-recurrence-free survival (LRFS) were stratified according to the tumor location and American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification 7th edition stage. Independent prognostic parameters were identified by Cox proportional hazard models. Two-hundred and ninety PEs and 161 UEs were iden..

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Funding Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge Ms. Deborah May and Ms. Danielle Jensen, sarcoma service nurse coordinator, for their dedication to the connective tissue tumor database that made this research possible. Dr. Dowsey holds an NHMRC Early Career Australian Clinical Fellowship (APP1035810).