Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Adding pembrolizumab to preoperative radiotherapy and surgery improves disease-free survival for patients with stage III soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity

 

Findings from the SU2C-SARC032 trial, conducted by the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC) in 20 academic institutions across Australia, Canada, Italy, and the USA, was recently published in The Lancet.  Led by Professor David G. Kirsch of the Princess Margaret Cancer entre in Toronto, results from the trial indicated "improvement in disease-free survival with addition of preoperative and postoperative pembrolizumab to preoperative radiation therapy and surgical resection for patients with stage III undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma or liposarcoma in the extremity or limb girdle." 

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