Fusion status in patients with lymph node-positive (N1) alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a powerful predictor of prognosis: Experience of the European Paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG).
Soledad Gallego MelconIlaria ZanettiDaniel OrbachDominique RanchèreJanet ShipleyAngelica ZinChristophe BergeronGian Luca de SalvoJulia ChisholmAndrea FerrariMeriel JenneyHenry C MandevilleTimothy RogersJohannes Hendrikus Maria MerksPeter MudryHeidi GlosliGiuseppe Maria MilanoSima FermanGianni Bisognonull nullPublished in: Cancer (2018)
Fusion status and tumor invasiveness appear to have a strong impact on prognosis in patients with aRMS/N1. Fusion status will be used to stratify these patients in the next EpSSG RMS study, and treatment will be intensified in patients with fusion-positive tumors. Cancer 2018. © 2018 American Cancer Society.