Recurrent adult soft tissue sarcoma is cancer that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The cancer may come back in the same soft tissue or in other parts of the body1.
Treatment Options for Recurrent Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Treatment of recurrent adult soft tissue sarcoma may include the following:
- Surgery (wide local excision) with radiation therapy before or after surgery.
- Surgery (amputation).
- Radiation therapy followed by limb-sparing surgery.
- Surgery to remove cancer that has recurred in the lungs.
- Chemotherapy with 1 or more anticancer drugs.
- A clinical trial of new anticancer drugs.
- A clinical trial of high-dose chemotherapy with or without stem cell transplant.
This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent adult soft tissue sarcoma.
1 Note: The text and images above are in the public domain and were reproduced or adapted from the websites of the National Cancer Institute (NCI): http://www.cancer.gov/ and http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/.