Patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma can benefit from systemic therapy, but the best drug combinations for the different disease subtypes remain to be established. Recently, great emphasis has been placed on histology-based chemotherapy regimens. Herein, we discuss the results of a recently published study demonstrating that some of these regimens are not superior to standard-of-care chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting.
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Jones, R., Thway, K. Does histotype-tailored neoadjuvant therapy improve outcomes?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 14, 589–590 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2017.118
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