title: [Adjuvant chemotherapy of adults soft tissue sarcomas].
abstract: The main progress in the management of soft tissue sarcomas have been obtained in the field of local control. Although the main evolutive, vital, risk of these diseases is metastatic dissemination, efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy remains a controversial issue. Thus, adjuvant chemotherapy cannot be considered as a standard for any situation. The last results of clinical trials, meta-analysis and population studies are presented and discussed in this article. New therapeutic strategies are to be developed to prevent metastases in soft tissue sarcomas. This needs a better understanding of the biology of those tumors, of metastases risk factors and of the determinants of systemic therapies efficacy in these tumors.
authors.affiliation: Institut Bergonié, Département d'oncologie médicale, 229, cours de l'Argonne, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France. bui@bergonie.org <bui@bergonie.org>
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bui-Nguyen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Italiano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Delva
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toulmond
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*