Wiki-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Adult Onset Sarcoma: A New Paradigm in Sarcoma Evidence
Table 1
Excerpt of summary of recommendations.
(a)
Does referral to a specialist centre improve outcomes?
+ Recommendation
Grade
Patients with suspected sarcoma to be referred to a specialist sarcoma unit prior to diagnosis in order to reduce the rates of incomplete excision, reoperation, and local recurrence and to improve survival.
C
(b)
Chemotherapy (systemic therapies)
What is the role for adjuvant systemic therapy for adults with BSTT?
+ Recommendation
Grade
Curative treatment of Ewing’s sarcoma comprises a combination of chemotherapy and surgery and/or radiotherapy.
B
The use of postoperative chemotherapy in adult type soft tissue sarcomas is not the current standard of care.
D
Curative treatment of high-grade osteosarcoma comprises chemotherapy and surgery.
