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Soft Tissue Tumors

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Radiation Oncology

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Soft tissue sarcomas are uncommon tumors that can arise from any of a number of mesenchymal cell types. A little over half of these tumors arise from extremities, a little over a third arise from within the abdomen/pelvis (retroperitoneal and visceral), and 10% or so arise from the head and neck.

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  1. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany St, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    Atif J. Khan MD

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology National University Cancer Institute of Singapore National University Health System, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore

    Jiade J. Lu MD, MBA (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor) (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Fudan University, 270 Dong An Road, Shanghai, 200232, P.R. China

    Jiade J. Lu MD, MBA (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor) (Associate Professor and Consultant and Distinguished Clinical Professor)

  3. College of Medicine, Drexel University, Broad & Vine Sts., Mail Stop 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19102-1192, USA

    Luther W. Brady MD (Hylda Cohn/American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology, and Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Distinguished University Professor) (Hylda Cohn/American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology, and Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Distinguished University Professor)

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Khan, A.J. (2008). Soft Tissue Tumors. In: Lu, J.J., Brady, L.W. (eds) Radiation Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77385-6_37

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