Establishment of a staging system for visceral sarcoma
Bingnan Wang,
Lun Xu,
Meng Fang
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundVisceral sarcoma is a rare malignancy with a poor prognosis. However, there is no recommended prognostic staging system for the malignant disease.MethodWe analyzed the data of patients diagnosed with primary soft tissue sarcoma (STS) of the abdomen and thoracic visceral organs between 2006 and 2017 at our hospital. Prognostic factors (size, tumor grade, and lymph node metastasis) were analyzed in our cohort (n = 203) and the SEER validation cohort (n = 5826).ResultsTumor size, grade, and lymph node m… Show more
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