The Relation of Roentgen Therapy to the Treatment of Fibrosarcoma

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IT is generally stated in medical literature that fibrosarcoma is markedly radioresistant, and therefore recurrence or metastasis would indicate a hopeless prognosis. Consequently, it has seemed wise to study the cases of fibrosarcoma which have been referred to us for radiotherapy, either because of recurrence after operation or as a prophylactic measure following operative removal of the tumor. We have selected all of the cases of fibrosarcoma which have had radiotherapy, and have not included the cases which have had surgery only. The cases under consideration comprise only those of connective tissue origin. The benign fibromas and the more anaplastic types of sarcoma have been eliminated. These tumors are commonly found in the skin and subcutaneous tissues, but in our series the point of origin was more commonly situated in the muscle sheaths or septa. Sex is not a differential point in the diagnosis as the distribution is fairly even. Such tumors may be found at any age, but in large reported series ...

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