Prognostic factors in superficial adult soft tissue sarcomas: Analysis of a series of 105 patients

Prognostic factors and follow‐up strategy for superficial soft‐tissue sarcomas: Analysis of 622 surgically treated patients from the scandinavian sarcoma group register

“…Notably, their deep-seated counterparts have been shown to be associated with a considerably lower OS [16]. Generally, our data corroborate previously published results which report a risk for local recurrence of 11-23% and metastasis of 9-14% [3][4][5]. As local relapse of STS is approximately 20% [1], one can presume that a superficial STS has approximately half the recurrence risk of a deep one.…”

“…In our series, no significant correlation between the surgical margins and patient survival could be established, as was the case in the series published by Rydholm et al and Cany et al . Radiotherapy also had no effect on disease mortality.…”

Preoperative Versus Postoperative Radiation Therapy in Patients with Soft Tissue Sarcomas

“…Many trials have not been able to identify patients' age (Coindre et al, 1996;Cany et al, 1999), histologic type of sarcomas (Dahlberg et al, 1993;Yang et al, 1998), and tumor size (Atalar et al, 2007) as predictors of survival.…”

Outcomes of surgical treatment alone in patients with superficial soft tissue sarcoma regardless of size or grade

“…This is consistent with other studies that have reported on local recurrence. Cany et al were able to achieve a new disease free status for 6 of their 11 (54.5%) patients with local recurrence of their superficial STS [21]. Similarly, Lachenmayer et al studied patients with superficial STS of the extremities and trunk; they were able to offer additional surgery to all 12 patients who had a local recurrence in their study [14].…”