title: Limb salvage in soft tissue sarcomas with selective combination of modalities.
abstract: One hundred and seventy-one consecutive patients with soft tissue sarcomas were treated in the period 1977-1986. Of 144 patients with extremity sarcomas, only eight (6%) were managed with amputation. The overall estimated 5-year survival rate is 64%, and that for patients with extremity tumors is 71%. The 5-year local recurrence rate in extremity sarcomas was 6% for patients with minimum surgical margins 2 cm or greater and no further local therapy, and 6% for those with narrower surgical margins and adjuvant postoperative radiation; 80 patients (56%) were in the former group and 64 (44%) in the latter. With a selective combination of modalities, limb salvage can now be practiced in 94% of the patients with acceptable local control and survival rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Karakousis
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Emrich
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khalil
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005121:Extremities / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate