Open AccessClinical efficiency of repeated pulmonary metastasectomy in sarcoma patients with recurrent pulmonary metastasis
Author(s) -
Yongjiang Li,
Wenbiao Zhang,
Shuangjiang Li,
Chongqi Tu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.183207
Subject(s) - metastasectomy , medicine , sarcoma , confidence interval , hazard ratio , metastasis , cochrane library , oncology , cancer , pathology
Recurrent pulmonary metastasis is common in sarcoma patients following the first pulmonary metastasectomy. Repeated pulmonary metastasectomy (RPM) may be a possible treatment method, but it has several unfavorable aspects. The clinical efficiency of RPM has not been established, as previous studies have reached inconsistent results.