title: Preoperative radiation therapy of high malignancy grade soft tissue sarcoma. A preliminary investigation.
abstract: Twenty-three patients with high malignancy grade soft tissue sarcoma received irradiation (about 40 Gy) followed by surgery. The follow-up time was 62 months or more in all patients. The local recurrence rate was 9 per cent (2/23). One of the patients was reoperated and is living free of disease, giving a local control rate of 95 per cent. Thirty per cent (7/23) of the cases developed distant metastases and died of the disease. Delayed wound healing was observed in 2 cases which was possibly due to the radiation therapy. Since surgery was regarded non-radical in 5 cases, the local control obtained by the combined radiation therapy and surgery is good and should be the subject for further investigations.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005121:Extremities; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D012598:Sclerosis; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery