Norman Jaffe, Humberto Carrasco, Kevin Raymond, Alberto Ayala, Farzin Eftekhari
BACKGROUND: Contemporary therapy for osteosarcoma is comprised of initial treatment with chemotherapy and surgical extirpation of the primary tumor in the affected bone. In view of the major advances forged by chemotherapy in the treatment of the primary tumor, an attempt was made to destroy the tumor exclusively with this therapeutic modality and abrogate surgery. METHODS: Thirty-one consecutive patients were treated. All had localized disease (absence of metastases) at the time of diagnosis...
November 15, 2002: Cancer