Study proves benefit of surgery/ablation in stage 4 sarcoma

[Olga]

Effect on Survival of Local Ablative Treatment of Metastases from Sarcomas: A Study of the French Sarcoma Group
http://www.clinicaloncologyonline.net/a ... ct?rss=yes

Conclusion

Local ablative treatment seemed to improve the overall survival of the patients who presented with oligometastatic sarcomas, including soft tissue and bone sarcomas. The survival benefit remained after repeated local treatments for several oligometastatic events. Surgery yielded the most relevant results, but alternative approaches (i.e. radiofrequency ablation and radiotherapy) seemed to be promising. The relevance of these results is strengthened by our analysis, which avoided biases by restricting the population to patients with oligometastatic disease and used propensity scores.

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Olga
A great finding!
I would like to expand if I might on Oligometastic disease.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3413954/



Thanks again
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Deb