The pretreatment erythrocyte sedimentation rate predicts survival outcomes after surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy for extremity soft tissue sarcoma.

Geumju ParkSi Yeol SongJin-Hee AhnWan-Lim KimJong-Seok LeeSeong-Yun JeongJae Won ParkEun Kyung ChoiWonsik ChoiIn-Hye Jung

Published in: Radiation oncology (London, England) (2019)

The preoperative ESR level is a simple and useful surrogate biomarker for predicting survival outcomes in STS patients and might improve the identification of high-risk patients of tumor relapse in clinical practice.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
early stage
clinical practice
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy
patients undergoing
patient reported outcomes
radiation induced
free survival