Radiotherapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma: 50 Years of Change and Improvement | Zendy

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Radiotherapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma: 50 Years of Change and Improvement

Author(s) -

Dian Wang,

Ross A. Abrams

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american society of clinical oncology educational book

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1548-8756

pISSN - 1548-8748

DOI - 10.14694/edbook_am.2014.34.244

Subject(s) - radiation therapy , soft tissue sarcoma , medicine , sarcoma , soft tissue , clinical trial , radiology , oncology , pathology

Radiotherapy for soft tissue sarcoma (STS) has advanced significantly over the past 50 years. This review focuses briefly on the period from 1964 to 1999 and more substantially on the changes of the past 15 years, such as IMRT and image-guided radiotherapy (IG-RT), especially when brought together (IG-IMRT) in the same planning and delivery process to treat localized STS. In particular, the introduction of IG-RT, target volume definitions for IG-RT, and review of recent clinical trials using IG-RT to treat localized STS in extremity will be reviewed. Finally, potential investigational agents combined with IG-RT to improve outcomes in patients with localized STS are discussed.

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