The Treatment and Outcome of Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Synchronous Metastases

John M. Kane
J. William Finley
Deborah Driscoll
William G. Kraybill
John F. Gibbs

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Publication date

January 2002

DOI

10.1080/1357714021000022168

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Journal

Sarcoma

Abstract

Introduction: There is a strong association between poor overall survival and a short disease-free interval for patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STS) and metastatic disease. Patients with STS and synchronous metastases should have a very dismal prognosis.The role of surgery in this subgroup of patients with STS has not been defined