title: Soft tissue sarcomas: thirteen years experience in the service of medical oncology of a general hospital.
abstract: Thirty-seven patients with soft tissue sarcomas were treated between 1981 and 1990. All of them were operated. Thirteen patients with marginal resection received adjuvant radiotherapy. Radiotherapy decreased the rate of local relapses. Sixteen patients received adjuvant chemotherapy with ifosfamide-epirubicin and four of them had a recurrence. Twenty-one patients did not receive chemotherapy and 13 of them relapsed. Adjuvant chemotherapy improved the disease-free survival during the first year, but not benefit appeared in long-term disease-free survival and overall survival.
authors.affiliation: Service of Medical Oncology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Espinosa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González Barón
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zamora
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: García de Paredes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Espinosa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000145:classification / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors