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How would you approach patients with primary cardiac sarcomas for adjuvant systemic treatment?

How do we approach patients with rare tumors given the paucity of data?
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Majority of these primary cardiac sarcomas tend to be angiosarcomas or UPS-variants. They inherently have a poor prognosis with high risk of metastases and death. Adjuvant XRT is generally difficult in this location. These also generally affect young individuals with o/w good PS/organ function. So w...

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Medical Oncology · The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
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I agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last. I would also test the sarcoma for genomics.

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