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How do you approach treatment for solitary fibrous tumor with a multifocal pleural-based metastatic recurrence that is surgically inoperable in a patient with good performance status?

How, if any, do you utilize genomic testing to guide systemic therapy?
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Standard sarcoma chemotherapy does NOT work unless SFT has dedifferentiated into a frank sarcoma. For SFT, VEGFR inhibition helps. Options tested are temozolomide/bevacizumab (Park, et al. Cancer 2011), sunitinib or pazopanib.

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Medical Oncology · Emory University
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In addition to the options put forth by @Dr. First Last, there is a retrospective describing activity of trabectedin for SFT: Efficacy of trabectedin in malignant solitary fibrous tumors: a retrospective analysis from the French Sarcoma Group.

I have had some luck with trabectedin.

There is a case rep...

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