Recommandations pour la pratique clinique : mise à jour 2006 des Standards, Options et Recommandations pour l'irradiation des patients adultes atteints de sarcome des tissus mous (sarcome des membres, sarcomes rétropéritonéaux et sarcomes utérins).
Cancer Radiother 2006;
10:185-207. [PMID:
16917992 DOI:
10.1016/j.canrad.2006.04.001]
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Abstract
CONTEXT
The National French Federation of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (FNCLCC) initiated the update of clinical practice guideline for the management of patients with soft tissue sarcoma in collaboration with the French Sarcoma Group (GSF-GETO), specialists from French public universities, general hospitals and private clinics and with the French National Cancer Institute. This work is based on the methodology developed in the "Standards, Options and Recommendations" (SOR) project.
OBJECTIVES
To update SOR guidelines for the management of patients with soft tissue sarcoma previously validated in 1995.
METHODS
The methodology is based on a literature review and critical appraisal by a multidisciplinary group of experts who define the CPGsaccording to the definitions of the Standards, Options and Recommendations project. Once the guidelines have been developed, they are reviewed by independent reviewers.
RESULTS
This article presents the updated recommendations for radiotherapeutic management. The main recommendations are: 1) irradiation before or after surgical treatment is the standard for soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity and uterine sarcoma; 2) no systematic irradiation should be done in case of retroperitoneal sarcoma.
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