When do you recommend post-operative radiation therapy for extracranial chondrosarcoma?
Is there a role for pre-operative RT?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
When an en bloc resection with negative surgical margins is not achieved. Typically, this means tumors of the axial rather than appendicular skeleton, as margins are typically wide in the latter.
There is "oncolore" that chondrosarcomas are radioresistant tumors. This is likely true at lower ...