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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• O'Sullivan, Brian
• Bell, Robert
• Davis, Aileen
• Turcotte, Robert
• Zee, Benny

Titel

Radiotherapy in soft-tissue sarcoma

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2002-12, Vol.360 (9349), p.1989-1989

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]we accept that a cut-point at 5 cm definitely declares patients at different risk of adverse outcome. Jayant Vaidya and Fausto Palazzo correctly note that our trial was powered and designed to detect a difference in major wound complications in soft-tissue sarcomas of the limbs undergoing preoperative or postoperative radiotherapy. The observed significance should be adjusted for early comparison to avoid the possibility of potential bias due to small numbers of events, and the p value for survival should not be interpreted at its face value and must be interpreted with caution.