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Nonmetastatic Ewing family tumors: high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue in poor responder patients. Results of the Italian Sarcoma Group/Scandinavian Sarcoma Group III protocol

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High-dose therapy added to the VACA-IE regimen in PR patients is feasible and effective and Selected groups of patients with ES can benefit from HDT.
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This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 107 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chemotherapy regimen & Induction chemotherapy.

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Bone sarcomas: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

TL;DR: The following recommendations apply to adult-type soft tissue sarcomas arising from limbs and superficial trunk and Extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma, which is excluded from this chapter.
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Bone sarcomas: ESMO-PaedCan-EURACAN Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

Paolo G. Casali, +74 more
- 01 Oct 2018 - 
TL;DR: Primary bone tumours are rare, accounting for < 0.2% of malignant neoplasms registered in the EUROCARE (European Cancer Registry based study on survival and care of cancer patients) database, and different bone tumour subtypes have distinct patterns of incidence.
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UK guidelines for the management of bone sarcomas

TL;DR: This document is an update of the British Sarcoma Group guidelines and recommends that patients with clinico-radiological findings suggestive of a primary bone tumour at any site in the skeleton should be referred to a specialist centre and managed by a fully accredited bone sarcoma multidisciplinary team.
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A system for the surgical staging of musculoskeletal sarcoma.

TL;DR: A surgical staging system for musculoskeletal sarcomas stratifies bone and soft-tissue lesions of any histogenesis by the grade of biologic aggressiveness, by the anatomic setting, and by the presence of metastasis, which permits appropriate evaluation and comparison of the new treatment protocols designed to replace standard surgical treatment.
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Prognostic Factors in Ewing’s Tumor of Bone: Analysis of 975 Patients From the European Intergroup Cooperative Ewing’s Sarcoma Study Group

TL;DR: Survival and RFS improved over the period and radiotherapy or amputation were more common in the period before 1986, whereas endoprosthetic surgery was widely used in the later period.
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Multimodal therapy for the management of primary, nonmetastatic Ewing's sarcoma of bone: a long-term follow-up of the First Intergroup study.

TL;DR: A total of 342 previously untreated eligible children were entered into the first Intergroup Ewing's Sarcoma Study (IESS) between May 1973 and November 1978 and patient characteristics related to prognosis and overall survival experience were primary site (nonpelvic patients were most favorable) and patient age (younger patients were more favorable).
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Ewing’s Sarcoma Family of Tumors: Current Management

TL;DR: Patients with initially metastatic disease fare less well, with about one quarter surviving, and new approaches include anti-angiogenic therapy, particularly since vascular endothelial growth factor is an apparent downstream target of the ews-fli1 oncogene.
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