Radiation‐associated sarcoma after recurrent colorectal primary tumor: A complex surgical case

Radiation associated sarcoma is a significant consequence of cancer therapy. Incidence of radiation associated sarcoma correlates with overall radiotherapy exposure. Prognosis is generally poor with 5 year survival rates lower than that for spontaneously occurring sarcomas. Surgical management presents many challenges including having to work in irradiated tissue planes while trying to achieve negative margins. We present a patient with a rare radiation associated pelvic sarcoma whose course illustrates the complexity of this problem. J. Surg. Oncol. 2015;112:658–661. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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