Guidelines for the Management of Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Table 4

Soft tissue sarcomas grouped by chemosensitivity.

Relative chemosensitivity	Examples of soft tissue sarcomas
Chemotherapy integral to management	(i) Ewing’s sarcoma family tumours
	(ii) Embryonal and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma
Chemosensitive	(i) Synovial sarcoma
	(ii) Myxoid/round cell liposarcoma
	(iii) Uterine leiomyosarcoma
Moderately chemosensitive	(i) Pleomorphic liposarcoma
	(ii) Myxofibrosarcoma
	(iii) Epithelioid sarcoma
	(iv) Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
	(v) Leiomyosarcoma
	(vi) Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour
	(vii) Angiosarcoma
	(viii) Desmoplastic small round cell tumour
	(ix) Scalp and face angiosarcoma
Relatively chemo-insensitive	(i) Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
	(ii) Clear cell sarcoma
	(iii) Endometrial stromal sarcoma
Chemoinsensitive	(i) Alveolar soft part sarcoma
	(ii) Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma