According to new research, radiation therapy administered before surgery rarely produces favorable responses in patients with retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS), a rare and aggressive cancer that forms in ...

Fragmented care—receiving medical treatment at more than one facility—has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as cancer ...

Only one retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS) patient out of 22 achieved meaningful tumor shrinkage with pre-surgical radiation, while over 75% of the sample saw no significant change and 18% experienced ...

Fragmented care - receiving medical treatment at more than one facility - has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as ...

A new study further supports the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of retroperitoneal sarcoma. The finding comes from two large case-control analyses of 9068 patients with localized primary ...

We identified 276 patients with primary retroperitoneal WDLS and 353 patients with primary retroperitoneal DDLS who underwent resection between July 1982 and July 2021 at our institution. WDLS ...

Fragmented care — receiving medical treatment at more than one facility — has been associated with both positive and negative outcomes for cancer patients depending on a number of factors such as ...

A total of 382 patients with primary RPS were analyzed. Sixty-five patients had a simple resection of the tumor, 120 patients had a complete compartmental resection (systematic resection of ...

Sarcomas are tumors that form in the body’s connective tissues such as bone, muscle and fat. They are rare and, because there are more than 150 types, patients benefit from seeing a sarcoma specialist ...