How do you approach adjuvant treatment of non-uterine leiomyosarcoma?
When, if ever, do you utilize adjuvant RT or chemotherapy?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I do not offer adjuvant chemotherapy to persons with leiomyosarcoma. One can make a case that the large negative randomized study EORTC 62931 published in 2012 supplants the 2008 meta-analysis of smaller studies that showed survival benefit from adjuvant chemo. Woll et al., PMID 22954508Neither...
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Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I approach non-uterine LMS the same way I approach other soft-tissue sarcomas. Radiation is utilized if margins are close. In the extremity the hope is for 2cm of margins, but at least 1 cm. Anything less than that should get radiation to improve local control (Bean et al., PMID 24756814). In the re...
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Medical Oncologist at Oregon Health & Science University I agree, except to comment that chemotherapy is ge...
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