Abstract

INFANTE CARBONELL, Maria Cristina; JAEN INFANTE, Lianne; GONZALEZ CALZADILLA, Maria Esperanza  and  LUBIN GARCIA, Ana. Characterization of patients with soft tissue sarcomas. A study of 12 years. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp.491-498. ISSN 1029-3019.

A longitudinal, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 89 patients with soft tissue sarcomas, attended in "Conrado Benítez García" Provincial Teaching Oncology Hospital of Santiago de Cuba, from January 2000 to December 2011, after being referred primarily from other care centers (where they were diagnosed with and operated), to be assessed and treated by a multidisciplinary team, with the purpose of characterizing them and thus applying different diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in them. A higher frequency of the disease at younger ages, of fibrosarcoma and fibrous histiocytoma as tissular varieties, and location in the lower limbs was found in the case material. It was stressed that early diagnosis is crucial, as well as the treatment of choice consisting in non-mutilating resection combined with adjuvant treatment or not. Most patients were reoperated and diagnosed in stage II of the disease, worsening the prognosis and indicating the existence of incomplete procedures in the therapeutic process that conspire to harm the survival of patients.

Keywords : soft tissue sarcomas; surgical treatment; multidisciplinary treatment; fibrosarcoma; fibrous histiocytoma; oncology hospitals.