Soft Tissue Tumors
Neutron therapy is appropriate for the following histologies:
- Alveolar soft tissue sarcoma
- Angiosarcoma
- Epithelioid sarcoma
- Ewing's sarcoma
- Fibrosarcoma
- Hemangioendothelial sarcoma
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Histiocytoma, atypical or malignant fibrous
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Liposarcoma
- Neurofibrosarcoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Synovial cell sarcoma
Patients who may benefit from neutron therapy include:
- Newly diagnosed patients with unresectable (inoperable) disease, or residual disease following surgery (positive margins).
- Patients whose disease has recurred after surgery.
- Patients who want to avoid the surgical option of amputation.
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