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 ...

Surgical resection remains the cornerstone of retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma (RPS) treatment. Patient- and sarcoma-related factors are well known to influence survival outcomes. The effect of ...

This trial compared radiotherapy before surgery to surgery alone for people with soft tissue sarcoma. This trial was for people with a soft tissue sarcoma behind the organs in their tummy (abdomen).

Impact of Accuracy of Survival Predictions on Quality of End-of-Life Care Among Patients With Metastatic Cancer Who Receive Radiation Therapy Surgery continues to be the dominant therapy for the ...

In this video, Chandrajit Raut, MD, MS, discussed results from the first study using a registry trying to “raise the quality of surgery” for retroperitoneal sarcomas, which was presented at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers wanted to see if a functional MRI scan gave more information than scans already used to plan radiotherapy or surgery to treat soft tissue sarcoma. This study was for people with a soft ...

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 ...