Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Surgery, Department of Cancer Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Pathology, and Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, Italy
Abstract
Purpose To explore the prognostic effect of microscopic marginal status after surgery for extremity soft tissue sarcomas. Patients and Methods We analyzed 911 consecutive patients surgically treated throughout a 20-year span at a single referral center. Six hundred forty-two were first seen with a primary tumor, and 269, with a locally recurrent tumor. All patients underwent macroscopically complete resection. Microscopic marginal status was negative (tumor size > 1 mm) in 748 patients and positive (≤ 1 mm) in 163 patients. Median follow-up was 107 months. Results Patients with primary disease had a lower disease-specific mortality in comparison to those first examined for recurrence (25% v 37%, respectively, at 10 years). Size, malignancy grade, depth, histotype, and local recurrence had a statistically significant prognostic effect at multivariable analysis, while microscopically positive surgical margins had not, though a trend in favor of negative margins was observed. However, an extra risk was observed for patients with positive margins after 3 to 5 years (hazard ratio, 1.8 after 5 years v 0.8 before 5 years). In patients treated for a local recurrence, the prognostic impact of positive margins was higher (hazard ratio, 1.6). Conclusion Positive surgical margins had a weak adverse prognostic effect, which was more pronounced for those patients escaping an early relapse. This would seem to justify a policy of surgical adequacy in adult soft tissue sarcomas, though clinical decision making in borderline presentations for conservative surgery might be reasonably flexible and shared with the patient. Once a local relapse has occurred, the impact of local treatments seems more critical.
Publisher
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
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