Satoru Taguchi, Haruki Kume, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Teppei Morikawa, Shigenori Kakutani, Yuta Takeshima, Hideyo Miyazaki, Motofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Fujimura, Tohru Nakagawa, Akira Ishikawa, Yasuhiko Igawa, Yukio Homma
The prognostic factors of retroperitoneal liposarcoma have yet to be clearly determined due to its rarity, whereas the prognostic value of symptoms at diagnosis has never been evaluated to date. In this context, we reviewed 24 consecutive patients with primary retroperitoneal liposarcoma who underwent surgical resection with curative intent at our institution. The Kaplan-Meier analysis and the log-rank test were used to estimate progression-free survival (PFS; primary endpoint) and sarcoma-specific survival (SSS; secondary endpoint)...
February 2016: Molecular and Clinical Oncology