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The poor prognosis of patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STS) must be ascribed both to the tendency of these malignant lesions to invade aggressively at their site of primary origin and to their early hematogeneous dissemination (Cantin et al. 1968; Lawrence et al. 1987).
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Hoffmann, W., Kortmann, R.D., Bamberg, M. (1995). Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Metastases of Soft Tissue Sarcomas. In: Bamberg, M., Hoffmann, W., Hossfeld, D.K. (eds) Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Adults. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78768-3_14
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