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Radiation‐associated sarcoma after recurrent colorectal primary tumor: A complex surgical case
Author(s) -
Stephen Andrew H.,
Fallon Eleanor A.,
Kalife Elizabeth,
Wanebo Harold
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.24059
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , sarcoma , colorectal cancer , incidence (geometry) , radiology , cancer , surgery , pathology , optics , physics
Radiation associated sarcoma is a significant consequence of cancer therapy. Incidence of radiation associated sarcoma correlates with overall radiotherapy exposure. Prognosis is generally poor with 5 year survival rates lower than that for spontaneously occurring sarcomas. Surgical management presents many challenges including having to work in irradiated tissue planes while trying to achieve negative margins. We present a patient with a rare radiation associated pelvic sarcoma whose course illustrates the complexity of this problem. J. Surg. Oncol. 2015;112:658–661 . © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.