diagnostic techniques, aggressive surgical control of the
primary site, and assiduous, long-term surveillance for
metastases, physicians have enabled patients to survive for
very long periods with this disease.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Philip H. Lieberman, MD, for
guidance, and Murray F. Brennan, MD, for providing data
from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering adult sarcoma database.
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