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How would you approach adjuvant chemotherapy for high grade pleomorphic/dedifferentiated liposarcoma?

Does anatomic location (eg retroperitoneal or thoracic) affect your treatment decision?
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Medical Oncology · Siri Onclogy and hematology Infusion Service
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These are not impressive results for a retrospective study where I am sure fitter patients are probably selected for therapy. these are very toxic drugs.

Can you break down the numbers of pleomorphic in this abstract ( unpublished) to see if we can get a better idea

What level of evidence should we ...

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therefore 48 patients only were pleomorphic.

in fact, the survivors could easily be the not so bad actors and we may be hurting patients. in their last days of life.

I think we have to learn to say no without data, particularly when for years chemotherapy has been so marginal in soft tissue sarcoma...

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