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SUBMITTER: Frezza AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5455204 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frezza Anna Maria AM Stacchiotti Silvia S Gronchi Alessandro A
BMC medicine 20170602 1
For metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patients not eligible for surgery, systemic treatments, including standard chemotherapy and newer biological compounds, still play the most relevant role in the management of the disease. An anthracycline and alkylating agent combination has formed the cornerstone of chemotherapy in STS for more than 30 years, with its value over that of administration of anthracycline as a single agent still being debated. Efforts have been made to improve the activity a ...[more]