Study co-author Hans-Georg Kopp, MD, from the department of medical oncology, hematology, immunology, rheumatology, and pulmonology at the University of Tubingen in Germany, says that to the authors’ knowledge, only a small number of retrospective studies have reported a survival benefit for patients with soft-tissue sarcoma after complete resection of pulmonary metastases. “While our study does not break new ground, it does confirm what others have found previously: surgical removal of metastases may be beneficial in sarcoma patients, especially if they have been carefully selected. Indeed, clinical characteristics such as resectability of metastases, time of recurrence, and number of metastases are helpful biomarkers when it comes to the consideration of metastasectomy in individual cases.”

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手术仍然是软组织肉瘤患者的最佳解决方案

研究合著者、德国图宾根大学医学肿瘤学、血液学、免疫学、风湿病学和肺病学系的医学博士 Hans-Georg Kopp 说，据作者所知，只有少数回顾性研究报道了肺转移完全切除后软组织肉瘤患者的生存获益。“虽然我们的研究没有开辟新天地，但它确实证实了其他人之前的发现：手术切除转移灶可能对肉瘤患者有益，特别是如果他们经过精心挑选。事实上，在考虑个别病例的转移灶切除术时，转移灶的可切除性、复发时间和转移灶数量等临床特征是有用的生物标志物。”