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What systemic therapy would you recommend for metastatic pleomorphic dermal sarcoma with a large inoperable solitary lung metastasis that is too large for radiotherapy?
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Medical Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
This a rare entity, typically originating in the scalp/head and neck location, more locally aggressive than an AFX (atypical fibroxanthoma), but generally not as bad as a UPS. Very rarely, it can behave like a UPS with distant metastatic disease. NOTCH 1/2, FAT 1 mutations, and various CNAs have bee...
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Medical Oncology · Emory University
We are not given any patient background. Dermal sarcoma is a tricky diagnosis. They exist, but aggressive and poorly differentiated cutaneous squamous carcinomas can lose expression of cytokeratins and look like sarcoma.
If the pathologist is walking through an IHC algorit...