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SUBMITTER: Ingley KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050042 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ingley K M KM Cohen-Gogo S S Gupta A A AA
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) 20200201 Suppl 1
Soft-tissue sarcoma (sts) is rare and represents approximately 7% of cancers in children and in adolescents less than 20 years of age. Rhabdomyosarcoma (rms) is most prevalent in children less than 10 years of age and peaks again during adolescence (16-19 years of age). Multi-agent chemotherapy constitutes the mainstay of treatment for rms. In other non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft-tissue tumours, such as synovial sarcoma, evidence for routine use of chemotherapy is less robust, and alternative treatme ...[more]