Osteosarcoma

Book Overview

This book reviews the brilliant progress made in the past three decades in clinical outcomes for osteosarcoma patients treated with a multidisciplinary approach, including limb-salvage surgery combined with neoadjuvant multidrug chemotherapy and aggressive management of pulmonary metastasis. Osteosarcoma was a miserable disease for adolescents and young adults until the early 1970s, with a survival rate that was less than 10-15% even after amputation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431566775
• ISBN13: 9784431566779
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages