Role surgery to remove the primary in metastatic setting
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:17 am
It is a very important article for the patients that were already present with the metastatic stage ASPS when diagnosed. It is very often that we see that their oncologists recommend a conservative treatment approach, and no surgery to remove a primary tumor - as it has already disseminated.
Drs from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston studied how the surgery to remove the primary influences the overall survival and they found:
"For DM ()disease metastatic) patients, primary site surgery significantly improved survival"
Prognostic factors in alveolar soft part sarcoma: A SEER analysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26804150
it would work for the insurance appeals as well.
Drs from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston studied how the surgery to remove the primary influences the overall survival and they found:
"For DM ()disease metastatic) patients, primary site surgery significantly improved survival"
Prognostic factors in alveolar soft part sarcoma: A SEER analysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26804150
it would work for the insurance appeals as well.