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Extremity and Trunk Soft-Tissue Sarcomas

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Management of soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities and trunk is optimally accomplished through a multidisciplinary team evaluation of each patient because of the diverse and complex nature of each clinical scenario. A team of orthopedic or surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, plastic surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists consider multiple issues including tumor stage, grade, location, and histologic type of tumor, as well as feasibility of a limb-sparing surgery, timing of radiation, and the patient’s performance status and comorbid illnesses. The rarity of these tumors in combination with the variety of presentation in extremity and truncal soft-tissue sarcomas limits the amount of prospective data available to reliably outline the management of all situations, and hence, there is a range of approaches utilized around the world today.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Ivy A. Petersen

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Robert Krempien

  3. Department of Orthopedic Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

    Christopher Beauchamp

  4. Department of Radiation Oncology, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Michael Eble

  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain

    Felipe A. Calvo & Ana Alvarez

  6. Department of Radiation Oncology, Navarra University Clinic, Pamplona, USA

    Ignacio Azinovic

  7. Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

    Matthew D. Callister

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Petersen, I.A. et al. (2011). Extremity and Trunk Soft-Tissue Sarcomas. In: Gunderson, L., Willett, C., Calvo, F., Harrison, L. (eds) Intraoperative Irradiation. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-015-7_18

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