title: [Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and combined conservative treatment of soft tissue sarcoma in the adult].
abstract: Between 1980 and 1990, 64 adults with a locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma, but without metastasis, were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy before conservative local treatment. Tumour localizations were limbs in 26 patients (40.6%) and other parts of the body in 38 patients (59.4%). Moreover, 27 patients had bone and/or vasculo-nervous axis involvement. Response to chemotherapy was > or = 50% for 23 patients (37.7%) with 3 complete remissions, < 50% for 36 patients and only 2 tumours progressed during chemotherapy. Conservative surgery was thus carried out for 51 patients (79.7%), 11 received external radiotherapy only. At the end of treatment, 49 patients (76.5%) were in complete remission. With a median follow-up of 76 months (range: 25 to 147), 25 patients are alive with no evolutive disease. For the whole population, the actuarial 5-year overall survival is 33.8%. Among the patients who were in complete remission at the end of therapy, 15 developed local recurrences (with metastasis for 7 patients) and 10 became metastatic. Actuarial 5-year overall survival for this subset of patients is 44.8%.
authors.affiliation: Fondation Bergonié, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cany
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Bui
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stöckle
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Coindre
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kantor
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ravaud
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Chimiothérapie d'induction et traitement combiné conservateur des sarcomes des tissus mous de l'adulte.