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Chemotherapy in Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma — The EORTC Experience

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Recent Concepts in Sarcoma Treatment

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 55))

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The Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group (STBSG) is one of the 17 clinical cooperative groups of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). It was constituted in 1975 and increased from nine full members in 1976 to 21 full and 11 probational members from nine European countries by 1987.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Oncology, University Hospital Antwerp, 10 Wilrijkstraat, 2520, Edegem, Belgium

    A. T. Van Oosterom

  2. 1st. Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

    A. Santoro

  3. Centre René Huguenin, St. Cloud, France

    J. Rouessé

  4. Dept. of Medicine, Finsen Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    H. T. Mouridsen

  5. Medical Oncology Department, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK

    W. P. Steward

  6. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    R. Somers

  7. Servicio de Quimioterapia, Hospital General de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

    J. Buesa

  8. West Midlands CRC Clinical Trial Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

    G. Blackledge

  9. Dept. Oncology, West German Cancer Center, Essen, Fed. Rep. Germany

    J. Schütte

  10. Radboudziekenhuis, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    T. Wagener

  11. Daniel den Hoedkliniek, R.R.T.I., Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J. H. Mulder

  12. Ontario Cancer Foundation London Clinic, London, Ontario, Canada

    V. H. C. Bramwell

  13. Dept. of Oncology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. M. Pinedo

  14. EORTC Datacenter, Brussels, Belgium

    D. Thomas & R. Sylvester

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, 48201, USA

    James R. Ryan MD (Associate Professor, Chief Orthopedic Oncology) (Associate Professor, Chief Orthopedic Oncology)

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, 48201, USA

    Laurence O. Baker D.O. (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

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Van Oosterom, A.T. et al. (1988). Chemotherapy in Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma — The EORTC Experience. In: Ryan, J.R., Baker, L.O. (eds) Recent Concepts in Sarcoma Treatment. Developments in Oncology, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2691-2_28

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