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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1639
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, PO Box 800679, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0679, USA
(Email: djones@virginia.edu).
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While primary thoracic sarcomas are rare, their treatment remains difficult for the thoracic surgical oncologist. The primary treatment for thoracic sarcomas has gradually evolved into a multimodal approach, with many patients undergoing induction chemoradiotherapy followed by surgical resection with or without brachytherapy. Despite this aggressive approach, these tumors frequently have locoregional recurrence at the resection margins and may have distant metastasis as well.
Tumor angiogenesis is involved in both the
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