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The vast majority of osteogenic sarcoma originates in bones of the limbs, and radical surgery can nearly always control the primary tumor. The prognosis of these patients is thus determined by the appearance of distant metastases, mainly in the lungs. The results of treatment of overt metastases are very limited, though the last decade has seen a great effort to improve therapeutic results by eliminating tumor deposits when they are not yet detectable, thus containing smaller numbers of tumor cells.
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van der Schueren, E., Breur, K. (1982). Role of Lung Irradiation in the Adjuvant Treatment of Osteosarcoma. In: Mathé, G., Bonadonna, G., Salmon, S. (eds) Adjuvant Therapies of Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81685-7_16
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