Development of nomograms for prognostication of patients with primary soft tissue sarcomas of the trunk and extremity: report from the Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Registry in Japan

Abstract Background The use of nomograms for prognostication of individual cancer patients has been recommended in order to facilitate precision medicine. However, models for patients with soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are limited because of the rarity and heterogeneity of such cancers. In addition, n...

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Main Authors: Masaya Sekimizu, Koichi Ogura, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroki Matsui, Sakae Tanaka, Katsunori Inagaki, Akira Kawai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5875-y