Local recurrence of soft-tissue sarcoma: issues in imaging surveillance strategy

NS Ezuddin, J Pretell-Mazzini, RL Yechieli, DA Kerr… - Skeletal radiology, 2018 - Springer
Soft-tissue sarcomas pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to physicians, owing to the
large number of subtypes, aggressive tumor biology, lack of consensus on management …

Does advanced imaging have a role in detecting local recurrence of soft-tissue sarcoma?

P England, Z Hong, L Rhea, A Hirbe… - Clinical Orthopaedics …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Early detection of soft-tissue sarcoma recurrences may decrease the morbidity
of reoperation and improve oncologic outcomes. The benefit of imaging compared with …

Follow‐up after primary treatment of soft tissue sarcoma of extremities: Impact of frequency of follow‐up imaging on disease‐specific survival

YS Chou, CY Liu, WM Chen, TH Chen… - Journal of surgical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives We explored the impact of frequency of surveillance
imaging on disease‐specific survival (DSS) in patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma …

Surveillance imaging patterns and outcomes following radiation therapy and radical resection for localized extremity and trunk soft tissue sarcoma

SA Patel, TJ Royce, CM Barysauskas… - Annals of surgical …, 2017 - Springer
Background Optimal surveillance imaging (SI) regimens following radiation therapy (RT)
and radical resection for localized soft tissue sarcoma (STS) are unknown and practice …

The follow-up of adult soft-tissue sarcomas

SR Patel, GK Zagars, PWT Pisters - Seminars in oncology, 2003 - Elsevier
Soft-tissue sarcomas are a rare and heterogeneous group of diseases with variable biology
and pattern of metastases. These characteristics make it challenging to conduct large …

Local recurrence management of extremity soft tissue sarcoma

B Serban, B Cretu, A Cursaru, C Nitipir… - EFORT Open …, 2023 - eor.bioscientifica.com
Patients diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) present a number of challenges for
physicians, due to the vast array of subtypes and aggressive tumor biology. There is …

Cost–effectiveness of surveillance for distant recurrence in extremity soft tissue sarcoma

TJ Royce, RS Punglia, AB Chen, SA Patel… - Annals of surgical …, 2017 - Springer
Background Optimal distant recurrence (DR) surveillance strategies for extremity soft tissue
sarcoma (STS) are unknown. We performed a cost–effectiveness analysis of different …

Follow‐up of the soft tissue sarcoma patient

WW Tseng, B Amini… - Journal of surgical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Despite optimal treatment, patients with soft tissue sarcoma are at risk for recurrence and
therefore appropriate surveillance is critical. At minimum, regularly scheduled clinical …

Surveillance strategies for patients following surgical resection of soft tissue sarcomas

JM Kane III - Current opinion in oncology, 2004 - journals.lww.com
For soft tissue sarcomas, patient education and office visits with thorough history and
physical examination will detect the vast majority of recurrent disease. Routine surveillance …

Staging and prognostic factors in soft tissue sarcoma

PWT Pisters, RE Pollock - Seminars in radiation oncology, 1999 - Elsevier
Significant advances have been made in the understanding of clinicopathologic prognostic
factors for soft tissue sarcoma over the past decade. Foremost among these advances is an …