Radiotherapy and Surgery in 50 Cases of Osteosarcoma Treated without Adjuvant Chemotherapy
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Orthopaedica
- Vol. 48 (6) , 580-585
- https://doi.org/10.3109/17453677708994801
Abstract
A series of osteosarcoma patients from 1 hospital is described. In 1962 radiotherapy with delayed surgery according to Cade was replacing surgery alone as the adopted treatment program. Statistically the results were the same before and after this time with 5 of 29 and 6 of 21 patients, respectively, surviving 5 yr. With radiation alone none of 8 survived. Surgery alone produced 3 of 14 and radiation with delayed surgery 6 survivors out of 15. As surgery with or without radiotherapy is equally ineffective in controlling osteosarcoma a prospective randomized trial of the relative merits of chemotherapy and interferon as adjuvant therapy seems highly desirable.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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