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How do you manage sarcomas of the hand or the feet?

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Radiation Oncology · Fox Chase Cancer Center

This is a very difficult question.

Please see my answer to the previous Mednet question: How would you optimize patient set-up and planning for the post-operative treatment of a distal lower extremity sarcoma? for general information on how I approach set-up for these patients.

Hand and feet sarcomas...

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Radiation Oncology · Cancer Specialists of North Florida

In addition to the excellent reference above from MDACC, I also (selfishly of course) point you to this review of patients from UF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25036470

We also looked into longer-term functional scores after combined therapy.

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