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Metastasectomy for soft tissue sarcomas

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Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Present Achievements and Future Prospects

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 91))

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Complete surgical resection of isolated lung metastases is now considered an essential component of the multimodality treatment of soft tissue sarcomas. However, the recognition of the curative potential of metastasectomy occurred relatively slowly, and only in the last decade has lung metastasectomy been accepted as a standard therapeutic procedure. Many years after the first resection of a single lung metastasis, discovered intraoperatively during the excision of a chest wall sarcoma [1], elective surgery has been occasionally offered to selected cases [2] with single pulmonary metastases and or a long disease-free interval [3].

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology, Rotterdam Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Verweij

  2. Department of Medical Oncology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. M. Pinedo

  3. Department of Radiation Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    H. D. Suit

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Pastorino, U. (1997). Metastasectomy for soft tissue sarcomas. In: Verweij, J., Pinedo, H.M., Suit, H.D. (eds) Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Present Achievements and Future Prospects. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 91. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6121-7_5

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