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- Title
Soft tissue sarcomas of childhood and adolescence: the prognostic role of tumor size in relation to patient body size.
- Authors
Ferrari, Andrea; Miceli, Rosalba; Meazza, Cristina; Zaffignani, Elena; Gronchi, Alessandro; Piva, Luigi; Collini, Paola; Podda, Marta; Massimino, Maura; Luksch, Roberto; Cefalo, Graziella; Terenziani, Monica; Spreafico, Filippo; Polastri, Daniela; Fossati-Bellani, Franca; Casanova, Michela; Mariani, Luigi
- Abstract
Tumor size is a key prognostic variable for soft tissue sarcomas (STS), and a tumor diameter of 5 cm is generally used as a cutoff for risk grouping purposes. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic effect of tumor size on overall survival and whether such an effect was influenced by the patient's size, expressed as body-surface area (BSA), in a series of 553 pediatric patients with localized STS.
- Publication
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 3, p371
- ISSN
1527-7755
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1200/JCO.2007.15.4542