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Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment: An Australian Perspective

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Optimal treatment for sarcoma requires knowledge of a large, continually changing body of literature that contains significant contributions from multiple specialties. The rarity of sarcoma and its subtypes makes it challenging to determine optimal treatment strategies. Multidisciplinary input, including specialist pathology and radiology expertise, is essential to providing best clinical practice outcomes. However, there are significant gaps in the evidence base used to underpin clinical decision making for patients with sarcoma and significant geographic and institutional treatment disparities.

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Australasian Sarcoma Study Group

Cancer Council Australia

Dr. Raghu Gowda and Ms. Sonya Stephens for their assistance and provision of data from the SA/NT MDT.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Susan J. Neuhaus MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACS

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Cancer Division, St Vincent’s Clinical School, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Australia

    David M. Thomas MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

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    Robert M. Henshaw

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Neuhaus, S.J., Thomas, D.M. (2017). Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment: An Australian Perspective. In: Henshaw, R. (eds) Sarcoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43121-5_23

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