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Edited by John H. Raaf. 483 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1993. $95. ISBN 0-8151-7003-3.

The average general surgeon will see only a single soft-tissue sarcoma during his or her career. Only 5000 to 6000 new cases of sarcoma are diagnosed each year, evenly distributed among age groups and accounting for less than 1 percent of all cancers in adults. Sarcomas are one of the main tumor types found in the rare Li-Fraumeni syndrome. No adjuvant chemotherapy has been proved effective in treating soft-tissue sarcomas, nor has chemotherapy been shown to extend survival in the presence of metastatic disease. Local resection, often coupled with some form of radiation therapy, can cure up to 85 percent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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