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Whole‐lung irradiation in the treatment of metastatic synovial sarcoma
Author(s) -
Gerber Naamit K.,
Meyers Paul A.,
LaQuaglia Michael P.,
Wolden Suzanne L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pediatric blood and cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.116
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1545-5017
pISSN - 1545-5009
DOI - 10.1002/pbc.25114
Subject(s) - medicine , synovial sarcoma , sarcoma , rhabdomyosarcoma , soft tissue sarcoma , lung , lesion , pathology , radiology
Whole‐lung irradiation (WLI) is standard of care in the treatment of patients with rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and Wilms tumor and pulmonary metastases. However, it is not routinely utilized in the treatment of pulmonary metastases arising from other soft tissue sarcoma histologies. A patient presented with synovial sarcoma of his groin and punctate pulmonary metastases. After completion of multimodality treatment to his primary lesion, he received WLI. The patient is without evidence of disease at 3.8 years. This case demonstrates the need for further study of WLI in synovial sarcoma as it may improve outcomes in patients with this disease. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014;61:2092–2093. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.