Françoise Bonichon

TL;DR: The FNCLCC system showed slightly increased ability to predict distant metastasis development and tumor mortality, and the use of this system to evaluate STS aggressiveness might be favored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed univariate and multivariate analyses for metastasis-free survival for the overall soft tissue sarcoma group and for every main histologic type, with the exception of malignant schwannomas and rhabdomyosarcomas.

TL;DR: Desmoids are relatively indolent tumours needing different approaches than sarcomas, and direct surgery is advisable only in primary lower trunk wall/girdle locations, and wait-and-see and medical treatment is preferable in other types of presentations.

TL;DR: This study confirms the feasibility of external postoperative radiotherapy with an acceptable level of toxicity, however, the high rate of local relapses does not demonstrate the usefulness of radiotherapy at the level of dose used and further preferably randomized studies should be planned.

TL;DR: This study on a large unicentric series and with a long follow-up confirms the prognostic significance of vascular emboli in patients with operable node-negative breast carcinoma and finds them to be accurately detectable by a simple routine and non-time-consuming method.