Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Present Achievements and Future Prospects

This updated volume on soft-tissue sarcomas highlights the importance of the multidisciplinary approach to treatment. Chapters relating to diagnosis include information on proper diagnosis and treatment strategy, histopathology, cytogenetics and PET imaging. Chapters focusing on treatment include planning radiotherapy, brachytherapy, and treatment of benign soft tissue lesions with radio-therapy. The book also covers secondary soft tissue sarcomas and how the functional outcome of the treatment is dependent on the skills of the surgeon, the vicinity of joints and the expertise of the centre This volume also includes information on metastatic disease, chemotherapy, clinical behaviour, treatment strategy and the outcome of treatment in childhood soft tissue sarcomas.