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Prior to the introduction of chemotherapy only 10–20% of children suffering from rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) were successfully treated by surgery alone [1–4]. The introduction of combined multi-agent cytostatic therapy in the last 15 years has led to a dramatic improvement in the cure rate obtained in RMS patients [5–8]. Effective chemotherapy has not only increased the disease-free survival rate but has by and large also made it possible to avoid the mutilations inevitably associated with extensive surgery: for example, cystectomy, amputation or orbital resection.
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Treuner, J. et al. (1989). New Aspects in the Treatment of Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma: Results of the German Cooperative Soft-Tissue Sarcoma Study (CWS-81). In: Spitz, L., Wurnig, P., Angerpointner, T.A. (eds) Pediatric Surgical Oncology. Progress in Pediatric Surgery, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72643-9_14
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