Bone and soft tissue sarcomas are often curable—But at what cost? Journal Articles

abstract

• Even if the number of amputations per year has decreased with time, limb salvage surgery may not offer a better functional outcome and health‐related quality of life for young people with bone and soft tissue sarcomas of the lower limb.

authors

• Barr, Ronald Duncan
• Wunder, Jay S

status

• published 

publication date

• September 15, 2009

has subject area

• 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis (FoR)
• 1117 Public Health and Health Services (FoR)
• Amputation, Surgical (MeSH)
• Arm (MeSH)
• Bone Neoplasms (MeSH)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Leg (MeSH)
• Oncology & Carcinogenesis (Science Metrix)
• Orthopedic Procedures (MeSH)
• Prostheses and Implants (MeSH)
• Quality of Life (MeSH)
• Sarcoma (MeSH)
• Soft Tissue Neoplasms (MeSH)
• Survivors (MeSH)
• Treatment Outcome (MeSH)

published in

• Cancer  Journal

keywords

• Amputation, Surgical
• Arm
• Bone Neoplasms
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Humans
• Leg
• Orthopedic Procedures
• Prostheses and Implants
• Quality of Life
• Sarcoma
• Soft Tissue Neoplasms
• Survivors
• Treatment Outcome

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/cncr.24458

PubMed ID

• 19670445

start page

• 4046

end page

• 4054

volume

• 115

issue

• 18